What Will it Take

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 This week has been, to say the least, insane. 4 precious, innocent lives were lost, the root cause being the lack of gun reform. Students across the state of Michigan are fearful of attending school, unsure of whom to trust and how to protect themselves and each other. Why is it that a tragedy must occur for people to start devoting their time and attention to an important cause that has been repeatedly occurring for decades? And still, why is it that after a short time, talk of a certain tragedy loses people’s interest? In “A Raisin in the Sun”, Walter tells Ruth about his idea of opening a liquor store, which will help their financial status. However, Ruth is very unsupportive of this. Walter is upset and says that she is “moaning and groaning all the time, but you wouldn’t do nothing to help, would you? You couldn’t be on my side that long for nothing, could you?” This makes me think about how school shootings have been constantly happening around the United States (and specifically in the United States), but the US government hasn’t made impactful changes in gun laws. Innocent children are dying and families are hurting, but nothing is being done to stop this. Laws that should have been made a long time ago are still being debated upon while people lose their lives as a result. I wonder what else it will take for the government to start paying attention to the helpless calls of their citizens and to start creating impactful change by implementing more severe gun control laws.

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  1. Veeksha SudhirDecember 5, 2021 at 12:07 PM

    Hi Amritha, I agree with your post, it has been very hard to move forward. One of the biggest things you pointed out is that tragedy has to happen in order for people to pay attention to unresolved problems. I like how well you connected it to "Raisin in the Sun" and it didn't occur to me that what you said could apply to smaller scale issues too.

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  2. Hayley ChenfangDecember 5, 2021 at 5:42 PM

    I agree with what you talked about in your blog. It's sad to think that while the government still hasn't mad changes, people's innocent lives are at risk every single day and that these kinds of shootings could happen again.

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  3. Zach BalcoffDecember 5, 2021 at 11:59 PM

    Hi Amritha, I agree that the sad reality is that changes are not getting made- and likely wont for a while until some higher up actually takes action. It’s terrible that this is something that happens in life, and we really should make sure we do everything to minimize the risk of it happening even closer to home.

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