Argumentative Essay: Do Guns Kill People?

The purpose of this draft is to inform the readers of the correlation between guns and drugs. In this draft I hope to inform the general public, the students and Professor of ENGL 111, how drugs may be implicated in many of the mass shootings. As we are all aware guns do not shoot people, it takes a person to decide to use it. It is believed by many experts that medication alters the mind and the mind controls the trigger finger. Guns do not kill people, people kill people. The focus of this draft is to convey information or ideas as clearly and effectively as possible.

It seems there exists a measure of controversy and assessment over what engineers mass shootings. However many experts believe there is only one solution and that is, restrict individuals taking psychotic drugs from purchasing guns. However, this restriction would inherently take guns away from law abiding citizens taking pills for depression have no a clue of the effects of psychotic drugs (Adams, 2012).
Many experts do agree that there is a definitive association between drugs and mass shootings. However there are some groups that try to hide the
The article goes on to stipulate how in the past 25 years every incident of violence in schools has been linked to pharmaceutical drugs (Michaels, 2012). In Arianna Huffington’s syndicated newspaper column dated July 9, 1998, Dr. Peter Breggin, psychiatrist and author (Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications) states, “I have no doubt that Prozac can cause or contribute to violence and suicide. I’ve seen many cases. In a recent clinical trial, 6% of the children became psychotic on Prozac. And manic psychosis can lead to violence.” (Michaels,