Bonus 7: Gun Control & Running for Office

The question is, will gun control change soon? I would say it depends on changing the firearms politic. The nation’s fragile gun violence will need to organize and steadily arouse core constituencies such as women, faith leaders, and law enforcement officers. And they must raise new resources, including from progressives who have focused on electoral politics. Sustaining movement-building can accomplish one massacre after another will not be enough to shift public debates and real prompt changes in policies about guns in America.

More Americans refused to admit it has a severe problem with guns and gun violence. And more than that, lawmakers continue to act like the solutions of gun control are some mystery. For years the politics and lawmaker have not done any research and experiences in other countries that show restriction order on how firearms can save lives or safety.

For the homicide rate, there are more countries in Europe having more gun control and less gun violence. Apparently, America has the highest rate of gun violence, and the reason is that these guns concentrate among a passionate minority, which are typically the loudest critics against any form of gun control and who scare legislators into voting against such measures. While few other people in some cases may use a gun to defend themselves or others successfully, the proliferation of firearms appears to cause far more violence than it prevents. That is what the Americans don’t understand; you use guns to protect yourself from danger not using weapons to violate the law or killing an innocent person.  

The question is, will it take until this generation of teenagers to run for office? I believe so because it will probably take time for this generation to get used to teenagers running for office. It’s funny how time flies, and there is no going back into doing the old fashion way of older people running for office and more technologies are getting stronger throughout the year. The problem is, these elders nowadays don’t want to listen to the youngest because they think they are too young to be running for office and they think these teens got a lot to learn about what it takes to be a government or a politician. According to Teenagers don’t take no for an answer: young activists see a turning point on guns, 17-year old Cate Whitman, a high school student from New York states, “Our age is not the focus of this issue. The focus of this issue is what’s going to get done and what we’re going to make it happen. So, if people want to talk about our age, if people want to put us down for that, if people don’t want to engage in real conversation and argument, they have no place at the table”. It means those teenagers are not going to give up and they will stand for what was right. They don’t have time taking crap from anybody, and they hate it. 

In Kansas, there are a bunch of teens who want to run for office and becoming the Governor of Kansas. A 16-year old Democrat name Jack Bergeson, who cannot vote but he decides to run for office in summer. That was right after he realized that there is no age requirement. The reason why he wants to run for office is that of the minimum wage workers, making sure all kids have their education, and getting people involved in politics. 

Some teens have already crowded 2018 races inspired a bill discussed by the House of Elections Committee which would set a minimum age of 18 for a candidate running for governor, the secretary of state, the attorney general, the state treasurer and the state commissioner of insurance.