It’s Only Me

The article ”It’s Only Me” is written by Nancy Gibbs in April 7th 2008. Nancy Gibbs wrote this article because of the school shootings in the US. The boy Charles Andrew Williams shot at his school in Santee, California and the surrender in the boy’s locker room. His last sentence was “it’s only me” and is just a hint for the police to not search for any other possible backer. Nancy Gibbs writes “no it’s not only you” because she points at the other 16 kids who were inspired by Williams and made the same kind of shooting at schools in the 48 hours after Williams’ shooting at the school in Santee, California.
Nancy Gibbs is controversial about the fact that any boy, girl, man or woman can go to the local arms dealer and buy the biggest handgun you can look in the showcase. You have to be registered in the arms dealer, but in some cases it is seen before the buyers just went down and bought the weapon without any problems and then went home as all the other American citizens. If you want any problem solved do it yourself then. You can easily handle those sorts of problems on your own hand in the US. They are allowed to have weapons in their car or house in case of any protection is needed. Unfortunately this is being taken advantage of in many cases instead. Indirectly Williams has inspired the other 16 kids to do school shootings because of his lack of anger management. This is going too far and can easily happen in the future because of the US’ weapon law. If everybody is armed with weapon you are not safer than if everybody did not wear weapons. In these cases it just makes it more difficult to get into a situation like this again.
In Finland this problem is appearing too. They have almost the same weapon law as the US. They have also been witnessing school shootings because of the quick and easy way to get a deadly weapon. This problem is not an