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Speech On Gun Control

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As a people, we are ruining our own society by passing out and snatching away a massive amount power at the flip of a coin to anyone who wants it badly enough. Once someone with very little control in their lives are given a sudden high status, they seem to break in a way. They practically turn into beasts, seeking that ultimate control over life and death that only gods may have. People that were alienated from others based on prejudice and how much power they hold over others turn into vicious killers once they are given a weapon. Stricter gun control and a better grip on our knowledge of mental illness can change the ever-rising death toll by mass murder in this country. Mass murderers regret their actions just as the characters of Orwell’s stories do, and while most real instances end in suicide, the ones that live to tell the world their side of the massacre rarely have no regrets. Both men in the Orwell pieces are isolated policemen, men of high stature, that see themselves as superior to all around them. Forcing people to view themselves as being on the highest of high pedestals is almost asking for discourse, and allowing the government to put so much power into man’s hands can lead to nothing but tragedy.
In the piece “A Hanging Man”, Orwell emphasizes the trauma experienced by those who participate in capital punishment, focusing on the side of those who are tasked with seeing it through. The lack of empathy portrayed in the narration becomes more and more

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