I recently wrote a position essay on the topic of guns and firearm education. My position was that I believe anybody looking to buy a firearm should first be required to take a firearm safety course and pass the class before obtaining a firearm. The motivations for writing were because of the population of people who were uncomfortable around firearms and people who needed to know how to safely and properly wield a firearm. I stated that if more people were more confident and educated in that subject, then the country could be a more reassured place when it comes to being around guns. I also stated the counterarguments of completely banning guns and refuted it by stating facts about other countries with high populations of gun ownership. And finally, I stated the possible positive effects of firearm safety and how it could improve our society as a whole.
This topic mattered to me because it seems like a lot of people blame fatalities and incidents that happen with firearms on the firearms themselves when really, the thing to blame is the person who was handling the weapon. So if more people were educated on the matter, than maybe more people would be more responsible for their own actions.
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