James Holmes trial (and more about gun control)

For the last couple days James Holmes, the Aurora movie theatre shooter, has been in court. Some details have been exposed in this case that I, and I'm sure many others, had no idea of. It is said in the article on Yahoo News that "In the two months leading up to the Aurora, Colo., movie massacre, suspect James Holmes purchased four handguns and nearly 6,300 rounds of ammunition online and in person" This is a perfect example of why background checks should be mandatory. Also why one shouldn't be able to purchase past, lets say... 100 rounds (preferably less) in a certain amount of time. Like two months. It's amazing, even though American citizens think that it never happens, the US averages 20 mass shootings a year. Think of how much could be avoided if there was just a standard backup check put in place. That everyone had to follow and penalties would be enforced to anyone who thought otherwise. It's just ridiculous to me that things like this don't already exist and we're just now putting these things in place (hopefully, maybe). 

Enough With Me, The White House on Gun Control

The White House is deciding to broaden the gun control bans. Instead of just reinstating a ban on assault riffles, it's being discussed to take it much further. The law would include background checks and tracking of weapons and sales of weapons through a national database, also if you brought a gun near a school the penalties would be much higher, and giving a gun to a minor would have much greater penalties. President Obama has given the job of designing this strategy after Sandy Hook. Many are saying that this plan is too extreme and will never pass. The NRA has been successful with federal lawmakers and the ban on bans on guns since 1994 (when a ban on assault weapons was made, but expired in 2004).
Personally, I think this plan is headed in the right direction. it has the steps that should at least be thought over. Being fined when bringing a gun near a school I think is a great direction to be heading in. The laws are finely being looked over and refined the way they should've been years ago. I am very happy.

The Stem Cell Divide post #2

There is a lot of controversy surrounding Stem Cell research and the use of Stem Cells (well durr) But one that I haven't really even thought of has just become the biggest issue, for me, surrounding stem cells.
And that is the fact that those stem cells have the genes that were going to form a child, which means that it could carry a potentially active and harmful disease or mutation that could then become present in the person making use of the stem cells. Or could lie dormant for the rest of their lives.
The only way that we can really know what is inside the embryos is if we inspect and test each embryo. And that would take major amounts of time and money. And is that really worth it?
And I guess that's always the question- is it worth it? Unfortunetly, there are many times where you can have this really great discovery and it could help a lot of people, but half the population is against it and half the population is undecided. And on top of that, Americans aren't too keen on the idea of the government spending more money (especially when they're unsure of whether or not they actually like it) And everyone had to ask themselves- is it worth it?
I guess we'll have to see.

My argument against your argument against changing gun control

Some people have brought up (Not only in school but, also my dad) that even if you change gun control, people will find ways to get guns anyway. And to that I have to say: So we're not even supposed to try? We couldn't try to make it a little harder to get a gun that for the most part, you don'te even need unless your intending to kill or seriously injure someone? We can't try?
It's just really aggravating to me that there are some people who actually just think "what's the point?" that just doesn't seem fair.
What if we didn't make heroin illegal just because people would do it anyway? That doesn't make it any less dangerous. It doesn't make it any better. It's just legal. Legality doesn't count for everything.
Here are my basic points:
1) Just because people would try to get guns anyway doesn't mean that the government shouldn't try to make it harder.
2) Maybe the fact that its illegal will turn some people away from even trying to get one (extra jail time, any jail time at all)
3) I'm not saying all guns should be illegal, but the assualt riffles and machine guns... certainly uneeded.