Today, I had an interesting conversation on my Facebook Newsfeed. My friend who has a keen interest in guns posted on his Facebook banning guns is not the right way to neutralise the gun violence.
Many of his friends and cousins commented on this in the support of the ban in the gun law.
So, should guns be banned or there should be a change in the law to acquire a gun licence?
Well, I don't have a keen interest in guns like my friend. But I am seriously against the bias passing of the law on the ban. Maybe authorities could add an extra layer of verification of the person who wants to acquire a gun licence. But even the extra layer of verification won't deter a terrorist to acquire a gun to cause terror among the people. Terrorist like a normal everyday citizen does not care about the law. The truth is they have a problem with the law and the system. I am not saying I am supporting terrorism. But this is the truth which is hard to digest.
This statement might cause a problem among today's political leaders around the world because this is not a politically correct statement. People out there are filled with emotions, they want to see swift action be taken against the perpetrators. In the bid to please their subjects, our leaders make statements in the media without proper investigation and without understanding the depth of the problem. We do live in a broken world there is no way the change in law cannot solve the problem in one go as you think.
The change in law can only increase the restriction on law abiding citizens. There are other ways a terrorist/bad guys can acquire a weapon. For eg: the underworld market, the dark web. For the past two days, I have been seeing the popular slogan on facebook profile pictures, that says, "We Stand Strong" and "This is not who we are". The best way to deal with the terror attack is, not changing our way of lives. Stand together and show them we are not afraid of this kind of terrorist activity.
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