【CET6】【每日打卡】並非所有美國學生都支持更嚴格的槍支法律

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Not All US Students Support Tighter Gun Laws

For many in rural America, guns are a way of life, and around age two dad took me hunting for the first time.

My experience with firearms started when I was around four or five with my dad and my grandfather.

A cultural staple that with every mass shooting comes under increasing scrutiny.

In the aftermath of the recent school shooting in Florida that killed 17 peoples, it』s the students who are leading the fight for stronger gun laws.

This isn』t just a mental health issue, he won』t have hurt as many students with a knife.

We want gun reform, we want common-sense gun laws, we want stronger mental health checks and background checks to work in conjunction.

But for these teens from rural Georgia, it』s not an issue of firearms they say, it』s the people behind them.

Guns don』t kill people, people kill people, people have bad intentions.

Bad people are gonna do bad things no matter what.

And the only way to combat that is by allowing, is by not taking away our given right to protect ourselves and our family and our property.

And as far as last week school walkout, they say not during class time.

School was not a place to make a political statement

and I get their intended meaning like to remember the 17 that have fallen but I feel like they kind of went a little too far.

I suppose this walkout, it misrepresented the issue of these shootings and this kind of image behind firearms.

These rural American teens represent a powerful voting bloc and they want their opinions to be heard, too.

They』re not the only people that have voices and they』re not the only people that are going through this

because when you make something to take away, our hobby and our sport, it affects us, too.

We do have a voice and we have ideas and we have possible solutions to this problem that need to be heard and that need to be broadcasted

because it』s not ever a good idea to try and solve a situation purely based on emotion.

Deborah Bloom for VOA News, in Forsyth Georgia.

對很多美國農村人來說，槍是一種生活方式，而在兩歲左右的時候，父親第一次帶我去打獵。

當我和我的父親和祖父在四五歲的時候，我開始使用火器。

每一次大規模槍擊事件都受到越來越多的關注。

在佛羅里達最近發生的槍擊事件造成17人死亡之後，正是學生們在為更嚴格的槍支法律而鬥爭。

這不僅僅是一個心理健康問題，他不會像很多學生一樣用刀傷害學生。

我們想要槍支改革，我們想要常識性的槍支法，我們想要更強的精神健康檢查和背景調查。

但是對於這些來自喬治亞州農村的青少年來說，這並不是他們所說的槍支問題，而是他們背後的人。

槍不殺人，人殺人，人有不好的意圖。

壞人無論如何都會做壞事。

唯一的方法就是允許，通過不剝奪我們的權利來保護我們自己和我們的家庭和財產。

至於上周的學校罷工，他們說上課時間不上課。

學校不是一個發表政治聲明的地方，我得到了他們想要表達的意思，想要記住已經跌倒的17人，但我覺得他們有點太過分了。

我想這次罷工，它歪曲了這些槍擊事件以及槍支背後的這種形象。

這些農村的美國青少年代表著一個強大的投票集團，他們希望自己的意見也能被聽到。

他們不是唯一有聲音的人，他們不是唯一正在經歷這個的人，因為當你把一些東西帶走，我們的愛好和運動，它也會影響我們。

我們有一個聲音，我們有想法，我們有可能解決這個問題，需要被傾聽，需要廣播，因為這不是一個好主意去嘗試和解決純粹基於情感的情況。

黛博拉·布魯姆在美國喬治亞州的福賽斯報道。

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Deborah Bloom [人名]

Georgia [地名] 喬治亞州

vocabulary:

staple n. 主要產品；訂書釘；主題；主食

conjunction n. 結合；[語] 連接詞；同時發生

misrepresent vt. 歪曲，誤傳；不合適地代表