Orlando Nightclub Massacre and Second Amendment Essay Example

The author of this article, Mike Lupica, points out that Orlando nightclub massacre proves that no policy put in place can be able to protect the United States as long as it is still so easy for anyone to get access to a gun.

• It is the gun, an assault rifle, which made possible for Omar Mateen, to murder the 49 Orlando nightclub goers and wounding another 53 in the process resulting in the worst ever mass shooting in the United States history.
• The massacre reminded the people that it is not simply about ideology or where someone comes from, with a fast-killing gun, this kind of violence can never sleep in the United States.
• No one can deny that the Orlando nightclub massacre was about Islamic terrorist because the shooter had claimed allegiance to ISIS but then nothing had prevented h
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  im from legally buying an assault rifle despite previously being investigated twice by the FBI in 2013 and 2014 for terrorism suspicion.

• The Charleston S.C. shooting, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting and the Aurora movie theater shooting proves that it is not all about radical Islam as all these there shootings involved white shooters.
• In the Paris attack in 2015, there were several coordinated bombing attacks. However, the worst killing came about as a mass shooting where 89 people were killed in a concert hall.
• The argument that if somebody other than the bad guy has an assault rifle can stop an attack is flawed because no one can remember the last time it ever worked out that way.
• The RNA is much more interested in the rights of gun-owners including the radicalized one