Speech On Gun Violence At Stoneman Douglas High School
On Feb.14, 2018, a nineteen-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students attending Stoneman Douglas High School. He killed 17 students raising questions about how a nineteen-year-old was able to attain a semi-automatic rifle. This is a tragedy, such a sad waste of human life. In the back of your head, you might think that such a tragedy will never happen in our maple syrup loving country known as Canada, right? Well, that’s what I’ll be discussing today. Good morning honourable judges, teachers and my fellow students, today I’ll be talking about gun violence in Canada.
Now, students, I would like for you to take a quick glance at your fellow peers for a moment. Most have you have been together as early as kindergarten, correct? You have …show more content…
Well, I am going to tell you a different story straight from the red, white and leaf. Dec.6,1989, a twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine armed with a rifle and hunting knife killed 14 innocent female students and himself in what is known as the École Polytechnique massacre/Montreal massacre. He described his motive in a suicide note he wrote which was that feminists ruined his life. This is considered one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian …show more content…
R. Myers High School shooting in Alberta. If you have been paying attention, you may have noticed a few similarities with the stories I've told thus far, such as all of them took place in a school environment, or all the shooters were armed with an automatic weapon like Marc Lépine's semi-automatic rifle. This begs the question, how are fourteen-year-olds able to have possession of a semi-automatic rifle in Canada? Well, it's quite simple, semi-automatic weapons aren't banned in Canada. So all a fourteen-year-old needs to commit a similar act are a motive, a guardian with a gun license, and a semi-automatic weapon. Canada doesn't look like such an innocent country now, does it?
When it comes to a political argument such as this one, you have to have two sides. So far I've been discussing the flaws in our gun laws, but It's about time that I discuss some positives about Canada's gun laws. For starters, if you want to possess a firearm in Canada, you need a gun license or permit. In some states in the United States such as Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, you don't need a gun license or permit to possess a firearm. The legal age to possess a firearm in Canada is eighteen, but if you wanted to legally possess a gun in Kenya, you only need to be
Now, students, I would like for you to take a quick glance at your fellow peers for a moment. Most have you have been together as early as kindergarten, correct? You have …show more content…
Well, I am going to tell you a different story straight from the red, white and leaf. Dec.6,1989, a twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine armed with a rifle and hunting knife killed 14 innocent female students and himself in what is known as the École Polytechnique massacre/Montreal massacre. He described his motive in a suicide note he wrote which was that feminists ruined his life. This is considered one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian …show more content…
R. Myers High School shooting in Alberta. If you have been paying attention, you may have noticed a few similarities with the stories I've told thus far, such as all of them took place in a school environment, or all the shooters were armed with an automatic weapon like Marc Lépine's semi-automatic rifle. This begs the question, how are fourteen-year-olds able to have possession of a semi-automatic rifle in Canada? Well, it's quite simple, semi-automatic weapons aren't banned in Canada. So all a fourteen-year-old needs to commit a similar act are a motive, a guardian with a gun license, and a semi-automatic weapon. Canada doesn't look like such an innocent country now, does it?
When it comes to a political argument such as this one, you have to have two sides. So far I've been discussing the flaws in our gun laws, but It's about time that I discuss some positives about Canada's gun laws. For starters, if you want to possess a firearm in Canada, you need a gun license or permit. In some states in the United States such as Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, you don't need a gun license or permit to possess a firearm. The legal age to possess a firearm in Canada is eighteen, but if you wanted to legally possess a gun in Kenya, you only need to be