Ban Guns!

    why? just why? why do shoot and kill? why do we kill in general? no one deserves to die that way. not a single person. the past 3 years, i’ve had to deal with way too many deaths. more than a teenager should. counting family members, friends and acquaintances that have passed due to murder. starting with the short family. 5 people. all killed with guns. by their own father and husband and self. why? because he was depressed and didn’t know how to deal with it? why didn’t he know how to deal with it? because he was never taught. 3 children, one of which i was just getting to know died due to a gun and depression. a wife. all gone. we know it wasn’t the man that killed them and himself. it was the depression. i know that because depression makes you do an say things that you would never do, but i got help and the only reason i got help was because i tried to kill myself. why? why don’t we get help BEFORE these things happen? why can anyone, literally anyone of age get a permit to buy a gun? why has it become so easy for people to kill other humans? and then themselves? what happened? soon after the short family came another. ana. she killed herself. why did he feel that the only way to be at peace was to be six feet underground? because kids are awful. people are awful. people think they can say whatever they want and get away with it. like it has no impact on other people. we now, in 2017, lack empathy more than ever. why? because kids never see their parents because they’re always working. why? because they need more money. why? because our government sucks. why do we kill people? why? i will never understand. even if someone killed my best friend, i wouldn’t wish them to me murdered. of course, i’d want them to suffer the rest of their life, but never murdered or sentenced to death. why? because before they did that horrible action, they were someone. they were a son, a daughter, a sister, a brother, a friend. and people would be losing them, too. and i would never intentionally inflict the kind of pain i’d be feeling if someone that close to me died on someone else. but why, in the first place, do people murder? self defense? i call bull. you wouldn’t have to feel threatened if the threat of guns didn’t even exist. we ban everything else. why not guns? in Australia, in 1996, 35 people died in a mass shooting which would go down to be the largest and worst mass shooting in Australian history. 35, compared to sunday’s (10/01/2017) mass shooting killing at least 58. after this mass shooting in australia – which, mind you, had one of the highest gun ownership rates at one point – the government “sharply [restricted] the availability of guns.” why can’t we do this? haven’t we had enough? now i know we are not australia and we are different, but there is no reason we can’t go about doing this.
    Please please please, help me out and sign this petition to start the process of banning guns!
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