Freitag, 3. April 2009

Should sport shooters store their weapons at home, or lend them at the shooting club ?

Should sport shooters store their weapons at home, or lend them at the shooting club ? This question is discussed really often in the last time. After the terrorostic attacks at the school in Winnenden (2009) or at the Virginia Tech School in Blacksburgh (USA/ 2007) the owners of shooting clubs think about their shooters and their weapons. Is it good to give the weapons to the shooters, so that they can place them at home in a cupboard ?
The terrosrist of Winnenden had the weapons he used for killing all these people at home. The owner: his father. He placed all his 16 weapons in a "safe" cupboard in his room, and his son was easily able to remove one of them. He often braged with the fact that he knows the pin-code for the safe of his father.
The sport shooters say, that it is better to have the weapons at home. If they would be in the club's house, there would be a huge amount of weapons in one place, and it would be a big danger.
But if we hear something like this horrible terroristic attack in Winnenden, we wonder why it is is allowed by gouvernment to store the guns at home.
The gouvernment already tries to forbid it, but this is really hard.

The weapons are a big danger for the security in all countries. In Swizerland, for example, at least one person suicides PER DAY (!!!!) with a weapon.
If i look at these arguments, i come to the conclusion, that it is really bad if sport shooters have their weapons at home. They can lend them at the shooting place, and also get their ammunition there. It would be the safest place, and there would probably be less terroristic attacks.

by Patrick, 11C

I totally agree. Actually, I think I'd even go further and ban all kinds of sport shooting. Playing dart is just as much fun (I imagine). Good comment!

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