This man gets it, even after his son is killed he says “gun control is ineffective”
This past February Christopher Ellis’s 14 year old son was shot and killed while walking to a corner store, the reason why is still unknown. He has had a lot of grief and time to come up with a very emotional plea for gun control. However, he doesn’t believe gun control would make a difference in his city saying it’s as easy to get a gun as it is to buy candy from a candy store, and criminals don’t go to gun stores to buy guns.
His answer to gun violence is exactly right.
“At the end of the day, it comes down to parenting,” Ellis said. “And it starts when they’re real little. Teaching right from wrong. Steering them in the right path. And also you have to set an example. If your mind is right, it’s a good chance your child’s mind will be right. You have to stay focused as a parent and make sure you steer them toward positive people, positive influences. And that deals with TV, music and friends in general.”
Ellis added that another gun violence deterrent among young people could be longer prison sentences, since losing their freedom is the “only thing they’re scared of.”
“They’re not scared of the police, they’re not scared of their parents, they’re not scared of anybody,” he told KTVU, adding that one thing they do fear is having “no fun anymore.”
“If your friend is doing 30 years to life because he attempted to kill somebody,” Ellis said, “you would think twice the next time you had an argument with somebody and pulled a gun.”
We don’t have a gun problem, we have a thug problem. We have the problem of poor parenting and choices in general. If we did have better parenting maybe 
that would address the issue.
Any way you look at it blaming the object of a gun is just ludicrous. I think Ellis is absolutely right, it would be better to have more extreme deterrents to prevent further crime. We need to force criminals to think about the consequences of an action before it’s committed. Many times criminals live a life of one crime followed by another.
In the end, the worse possibly thing to do with the issue of violence is more gun control or gun bans. It would leave countless innocent people defenseless, and leave the country as a whole open to an easy take-over from a tyrannical government.
