Welcome to my blogger page where I will be reveling my tour of discovery on the debate for the gun ban for the mentally ill. My name is Jared Clark and I am a mass-communication major at Kansas State University. I am currently researching the debate on gun control. This was not my first topic to write about but it is a topic that is relevant and will continue to be the top stories in the states for 2013. Personally I am scared of guns. I am a even scared to own a gun for worries would I do with it. However This does not mean I am for or against gun control. It is just I personally do not want to own a gun.
If you have never seen the news or kept up with US politics then you may not know that there is a push for keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. This push stems from the latest school shooting that happened at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut on December 14 2012. There is strong opinion that the shooter Adam Lanza that killed 26 people (of which 20 were children) was Mentally ill. The Beleife is that if we can keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill we can save lives. There is strong correlation of mass killings and mentall illness. The othter major news stories most have heard of include the Colorado theater shooter James Holmes, who killed 12 and injured 70 and the Columbine High School Massacre of April 20 1999 where two senior, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed 13 students and injured 21 students. These are the major cases where the question of keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
So if you ask anyone "Should the mentally ill have guns?" you will get the answer "no".
