To regulate guns, American society has to figure out who would misuse guns. Organizations like Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America use videos to make people think about gun control. The online video clip on youtube released by Moms Demand Action asks the question “Is this the #NewSchoolUniform?”, and the video shows a little boy having a normal day until he leaves for school and puts on a vest. This is not a future that anyone would want for their child, and Moms Demand Action uses this connection to convince people that gun abolition is the best option. Other people believe gun abolition is the best option. People like author Phoebe Bovey believes that people should “Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police”. They believe that the abolition of guns would prevent mass shootings and gun violence throughout America.
Gun abolitionists see things in a totally different light than pro-gun-rights activists do. Gun abolitionists see that “Ban[ning] Guns, meanwhile, is not discriminatory in this way. It’s not about dividing society into good and bad gun owners. It’s about placing gun ownership itself in the bad category”. They see gun abolition as a way to protect the future of society since gun ownership is inherently bad, despite the intentions of gun owners being good in general. The majority of gun abolitionists are not very vocal, since the majority of society believes in moderation or are pro-guns-rights activists. Bovey believes that if more people are vocal about gun abolition, there is a much greater possibility of gun abolition which will leave American society much safer. |