Blogger #9 Gun Control

     Our United States constitution was made by our founding fathers to help keep our country in order.  We made the amendments to the constitution to help protect our citizens and keep everything fair.  The 2nd amendment states, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
     If our government decided to control guns within the United States, they would be violating our constitutional rights.  Now, I understand that people are upset with all of the recent shootings that have happened, but it is not the guns fault.  The blame needs to go to the people who are providing mentally unstable people with firearms.  We need to focus on prosecuting the people who are providing guns to people who shouldn't have them and to people who have illegal guns, such as automatic firing guns.  A gun doesn't aim and pull the trigger by itself.  It is a person who aims the gun and pulls the trigger.  I will agree that our nation should implement stronger laws that go towards people purchasing guns.  Some ideas that have came about are background checks and limiting the amount of ammunition someone can buy at one time.  Taking guns out of the hands of United States citizens will cause an uproar.  The gun control laws that Congress and President Obama want to install in our nation would mainly effect the law abiding citizens.  The people of our great country that follow the laws and use their weapons for hunting, target shooting, recreational purposes, and self defense.  Another issue with guns is concealed carry.  Concealed carry is allowed in Texas, where it is warmer and people are out and about in the city more often than what people are in Chicago.  The crime rate is much lower in Houston than it is in Chicago because there is a presence of guns.  It scares people to do crimes because you never know who has a handgun on them.  Other countries are more weary of the United States because we have gun bearing citizens, that if there comes a time and need for it, that would grab our rifles and fight for this country and protect it.  The point I'm trying to get across here is that, with the presence of guns in our society it puts a fear into criminals.  Controlling guns is not the answer, controlling the people who unlawfully use them is.  
   

     Edna Pontillier is an interesting character.  She definitely changes throughout the novel.  My opinion of her is that she is sort of undecided in her life and doesn't know what she really wants.  She is not very happy with where her life is at, at this point either.
     I think Edna is somewhat justified in her choices.  I think she is in the wrong in leaving her husband and family behind for her own interests.  She is putting herself, her life, in front of the people that she supposedly loves.  In a sense it is okay because it is Edna's life and she needs her life to be happy, not depressing.  I think she has done harm to Leonce even though he might not show it.  Some people have strong feelings, but don't know how to express them very well. 
     I would not act this way if I was in Edna's shoes.  I personally believe the way she went about this whole situation is wrong.  I think she should have never associated herself with Robert in the first place.  Especially because she was warned by the others that Robert picks out a girl to go after every summer.  Robert really is the root to the beginning of all of Edna's problems, granted that there were some before he was even in the picture.  After Edna discovered that she had feelings for Robert, she completely blew off her husband and children.  Moving out of her house into one of her own was out of line in my opinion.  She should have tried to talk to Leonce first and valued his opinion before she made such a drastic change.  Once Edna moved out, it was a downhill wreck.  Honestly, she became a slut, or in today's term, the town bicycle.  She didn't know what she wanted in her life besides Robert and I think that it really confused her.  If I were in Edna's shoes, I would try to talk about all my issues with someone I trusted and really figure out what I wanted.
     All in all, Edna took her own life because of love.  She was not happy with the man she was married to and the man that she wanted, wouldn't take her.