Currently in 2018, the United States of America is averaging one mass shooting every 60 hours. We are barely two monthis into 2018. This needs to change, for we are the only country on this Earth where this happens. I’m calling on our government to stop sending their thoughts and prayers and to enact policy and change. Pass laws that will help control and ultimately stop these mass shootings. Stop putting an end to bills that restrict who may buy guns. On the same day of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Trump took away a bill that restricted the sale of guns to people with mental illnesses. This is a step in the wrong direction. This country needs to follow the lead of Australia and the U.K. to put an end to the loss of life in these mass shootings. The students killed in mass shootings had their whole lives ahead of them, and that was all taken away in the blink of an eye thanks to the lack of gun control in this country. We need to put an end to this once and for all.