With the idea that it's people killing people rather than guns killing people, I'd like to bring up a name no one probably knows: Timothy McVeigh. In 1995, this 27 year-old man walked away from the Alfred P. Murrah Building and set off a 4000-pound bomb. He claimed to have done it in order to save the constitution. This man killed 168 innocent people and 19 of them were children under six. Why is it that we can still go out and buy materials used in bombs and yet we try to outlaw guns? With the recent school shooting in Connecticut, gun control laws have been a huge topic of conversation. Personally, I think outlawing guns is unbelievably ignorant. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Cars aren't outlawed and yet 3,000 people die daily because of those. Tobacco isn't outlawed and it kills daily as well. Besides, I think that if someone was going to kill people, a gun control law wouldn't stop them.
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