Lately there have been many stories spread by the media on incidence that involved school going children having access to a hand guns and taking them to their schools. In most situations innocent children get hurt in the process since the young children are not aware of how to handle a gun effectively. On 27th February 2012, T.J Lane who was a seventeen year old school boy walked with a .22 caliber pistol in his bag to his school, Chardon High School situated outside Cleveland. He walked to the cafeteria where other students were having their breakfast where he pulled out the gun and raised before firing a shot without saying a word. The students present panicked and started screaming while running out of the cafeteria. A few kids were shot while others were injured by the bullets while trying to flee for their lives (LePore). Other similar cases have also taken place in schools, where young students got access to guns and ended up injuring and killing some of their fellow schoolmates. The effect of such a situation is beyond physical effects as most school going children are psychologically affected from these situation and take a lot of time to get over the situation. Most of these children have access to guns due to a lack of gun control measure in this society.
Gun control will help reduce the number of guns in this society, which would result in reduced death and crimes attributed to guns. With a strict gun control measures, incidence similar to that if Chardon High school can be avoided. Other situation of gun crimes have been attributed to licensed gun owners. In some situation, gun owner, who are also human with feelings and emotions, are angered by different things and people, and due to the fact they have a gun, they tend to use theirs guns under the influence of their anger to kill their counterparts. Only later do they comprehend with their actions where they mostly seen to regret their actions.
