Do We Have The Courage To Stop This

In "Do We Have The Courage To Stop This" author Nicholas D. Kristof brings to the light how easy it is to buy guns off of people and how the rates are increasing for kids ages 5-14 dying from them.
One example from the article that supports the given statement is when a facebook friend included in the article stated his opinion on how it's more easy to buy a gun than to adopt a pet.
Another example that supports my answer from the article is when the aut3hor states "And don't say that it won't make a difference because crazies will always be able to get a gun. We're not going to eliminate gun deaths any more than we have eliminated auto accidents. But if we could reuce gun deaths by one-third, that would be 10,000 lives saved annually."
This article is very interesting to me because someone is finally taking matters into their own hands about gun regulations. Not only is the author stating their opinion on how they feel about no one standing up to the NRA, but they also explain how the rates will affect others and how safe children would be.
Another example that stood out to me in this article is when the author says "The tragedy isn't one school shooting, it's the unceasing toll across our country. More Americans die in gun homicides and in suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terroroist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined."
This statement stood out to me because, the death rates of Americans should not be higher than the death rates of victims occuring in the war. I prefer that there'd be a specific function to track down the particular gunman if there was a shooting with that particular gun.
Although with many poeple not really stepping up and doing anything about the buying of guns, Australia managed to take things into consideration.
"In Australia in 1996, a mass killing of 35 people inspired the nations conservative prime minister to ban certain rapid-fire long guns. The "national firearms agreement," as it was known, led to the buyback of 650,000 guns and to tighter rules for licensing and safe storage of those remaining in public hands."
I found this example very interesting because unlike other areas, australia took matters into their own hands and decided to ban certain guns in the city.
However, this states that they're not like other people and aren't afraid to step up the NRA.
Australia did what they had to do keep victims harmless and make their country safe.