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Using personal anecdotes of being "born and raised in Michigan" and a proud member of the "national rifles association" Moore positons the audience to challenge their personal attitudes on gun involvement. Moore’s casual costuming visually symbolises a typical American aiming to undercover the nature of gun mentality.

Ott et al. find that CFM has a “near-total absence of reflection on the role of firearms in society” (Ott et al., 2015, p.219) and is “focusing on the presentation of firearms using an aesthetic of domestication and sterility” (Ott et al., 2015, p.217). Including the Coors Video Theatre, the hunting lodge, the frontier stage stop, and The Browning Gallery, none of these are showing the violence and reality side of the weapon. The way CFM describes guns as “necessary tools, commonplace commodities, and innovative technologies in nineteenth-century America is not historically inaccurate, just highly selective” (Ott et al., 2015, p.222). They also mention taxonomy and “the manner in which they (guns) are arrayed and hung” (Ott et al., 2015, p.225). The authors called these as “artistic arrangement”, which means, “the guns purified of violence, death, and war” (Ott et al., 2015, p.226).

To comprehend that, it's essential to get a handle on not only the staggering measurements about weapon proprietorship and firearm savagery in the United States, however America's extremely one of a kind association with weapons — not at all like that of some other created nation — and how it plays out in our legislative issues to guarantee, apparently despite seemingly insurmountable opposition, that our way of life and laws keep on driving the normal firearm viciousness that imprints American life.

In this short story the gun is a representation for many things. It symbolizes everything he doesn’t have and feels he needs such as power, which in turn will gain his respect and independence, all of which he desperately craves. He views the gun as his only solution to compensate for his shortcomings. Even though he has had no experience with a firearm, nor the knowledge of how to properly fire one, he still feels as though it is what will make him a

According to many scholars America has a “gun culture”, an ardent love affair of firearms. Michael L. Bellesiles is a historian at Emory University, in his book “Arming America”, he states: “America’s gun culture is an invented tradition” (Bellesiles). This “invented culture” has several sources. The historian Richard Hofstadter identifies the origin of the American gun in the history of the nation, and he asserts: “Early settlers who expanded the frontier westward needed firearms to shoot wild game and farmers used guns to shoot vermin and predatory animals” (Hofstadter). In such an environment, the firearm became a necessity of life. By the time of the American Revolution, in gaining independence from Britain, the citizens had to arm

Without the long-term healthcare industry, we as a nation would struggle to exist and remain healthy. Due to the growing number of baby boomers, long-term health care is essential so that they are being taken care of. When deciding on the correct health care system, individuals have many factors to consider. Like anything else, there are many threats and disadvantages to becoming a part of long-term healthcare. To most people, the negatives outweigh the positives sometimes when people are put into the nursing home the healthcare professionals many times are not professionals and families worry that their loved ones are not receiving proper care or treatment. Most patients would prefer to use the services of a state hospital compared to a private

This discourse is needed because Weinstein is speaking from a personal standpoint that gun owners can relate to. He highlights the inner turmoil many gun owners must face when thinking about owning a gun and whether or not they can properly use it. He also goes into detail when he explains how people who own guns have caused more

Shaquille Kornegay, 2 years old, had been napping with her father when she discovered the 9-millimeter handgun he often kept under his pillow in his Kansas City home. It was equipped with a laser sight that lit up like the red lights on her cousins’ sneakers. The sound of a gunshot, panicked, desperate cries, and then… silence. Shaquille now lies buried in a pink coffin, her favorite doll by her side and a tiara strategically placed to hide the self-inflicted gunshot wound to her forehead. The truth is, Shaquille should have never found the handgun under her father’s pillow; it shouldn’t have been there to begin with. Children like Shaquille suffer the consequences of poor gun control laws, because of weapons of mass killings that are so readily found when they shouldn’t be. It is a moral outrage that so many children are being exposed to such a weapon at very early ages, and that when incidents such as Shaquille’s occur, America’s leaders offer condolences and tears, but do little to nothing to ensure that children like Shaquille have a future; one that is safe and secure. There is little wonder why, in a country with more than 30,000 annual gun deaths, the smallest fingers on the trigger belong to children like Shaquille.

I was little, six or seven when I shot my first gun. The Ruger ten twenty-two; the smallest gun we had in the house at the time. Dad was in a shooting contest with just shooting twenty-twos. Every now and then he would let me shoot. The first shot I ever took; Dad was there to help me shoot and learn what to do and what not to do. WHAM, the gun went off; the bolt slams open and I got the first smell and taste of gunpowder being burnt. Talk about the best smell and taste; that was one of them! I leaned over to Dad and asked: can I shoot some more? He said have at it. WHAM, WHAM, WHAM; all between 4 second of ejecting the round and pulling the trigger.

Gregory Orfalea’s unhinged sister took the life of their sixty-year-old father and then took her own. Needless to say, Orfalea has known a life of tragedy. Prior to this family disaster, Orfalea described himself as one “acquainted with guns” (17). He reminisced about using guns while “training to be an Army officer” and shooting “snowshoe hares” in Alaska (17). Now, however, Orfalea backs the gun control perspective because “the chance of that gun . . . saving you from harm from an intruding stranger is minuscule, while possession of a firearm doubles or even quadruples the odds of your being shot” (qtd. in Charles Branas’s 2009 study in the American Journal for Public Health 18). Many Americans sympathize with Orfalea’s position out of the fear that firearms in the wrong hands could endanger unsuspecting citizens. But others point to the Constitution to protect their right to own a gun from further regulation.

As I write this paper my heart deepens with sadness and sorrow for the innocent people that died as a result to a firearm. A recent tragedy occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 1, 2017. CBS News reports Las Vegas to be the deadliest mass shootings in the United States history. This massive attack on innocent lives during a music festival killed many. According to CBS News reports Stephen Paddock a 64- year old gunman opened fire to thousands of people while gathered at an outdoor concert, they report more than 500 injured and 58 murdered. Police report 20 firearms found in Paddock’s hotel room and 18 more firearms found in his home, including thousand rounds of ammunition They report 500 hundred injured and 58 dead. Another

Gun ownership is the most basic American right and also one of the most contentious social and political issues of now a days. There are almost 300 million of private-owned firearms in the US, in this nation there is almost one gun for every man, woman and child in America. The third part of America’s the population owned at least one gun. Many of these firearms were bought with home protection in mind, which makes sense because most of the owners buy guns to protect their families but most of them end up destroying it: in the right circumstances, a gun can be the first and most effective option line of defense against intruders and criminals.

Shooting a gun, even safely, for fun or for marksmanship is looked down upon. This is because in today’s world, guns are seen as a symbol of death. This has been created by the rise of deaths caused by gun violence and accidental shootings. Because of this, many parents do not allow their children to shoot a gun. In spite of this, some parents are choosing to let their children shoot guns. In the eyes of others, these parents are considered bad parents because they are endangering the lives of their children. Actually, these parents have a good reason to let their children shoot guns. New studies are showing that shooting a gun can help the development of a child. Even though there are some gun violence and safety concerns, parents who allow

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes for the final time. I attempted to gather my thoughts, but it was no use. There were no thoughts that could justify the action I needed to do. I composed myself and cocked back the lever to load my BB gun. The steel and carbonate composite that made up the gun never felt colder, even on a hot summer’s day like today. The world seemed to stop spinning and there was nothing but silence. It was only myself and the task at hand. I removed my finger from the trigger guard and placed it behind the trigger itself. I closed my eyes again. I was ready to finish this.

He retells his childhood in Michigan - a gun-lovers paradise - expressing his eagerness to own a gun as a boy. He also shows his marksman award from the National Rifle Association (Moore, Bowling for Columbine). By acknowledging his compassion for guns, and his broad exposure to guns growing up while indicating flaws in the current gun regulation laws, Moore validates himself as a critic condemning the present-day system; Moore’s conflicting image of a gun-lover and position of a gun laws critic exhibits Moore’s awareness of the issues surrounding gun violence. Thus establishes Moore’s expertise regarding the issue and the viewers in turn are able to place their trust in Moore’s argument. Additionally, a gun-lover being conscious of the rate of shootings demonstrates that there are indeed too many crimes related to gun violence. Furthermore, Moore denounces the current firearm regulations indicating that there is an undeniable problem regarding the present-day system. Moore’s positioning of himself as an antithetical figure builds his authenticity as he discusses the criticalness of the unreasonably high rates of gun crimes and the legality of the contemporary gun control