Places and forms of power: the gun issue in America

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[...] One is to simply remind shocking facts: 336 mass shootings happened in 2014. Another document reveals that gun violence costs 229 billion dollars and kills 33,000 a year. If statistics are boring, let's remember the horror of Columbine 1999, when two asocial and jealous teen boys, who we can see in color on a poster entitled "The Monsters Next Door", killed 12 of their peers plus a teacher, who are shown in black and white. Likewise primary school pupils were killed in Newton, Connecticut, in 2012. [...]

[...] Places and forms of power : the gun issue in America Power is the possibility to choose one's life as well as to influence that of others. More than physical strength, it is mostly found in society and politics, but it can also take the form of gun violence. Nothing is more threatening than a fireweapon and it has become a constant fight between advocates and opponents. The question is who is right (and able) to impose their view to others and what tools they use? [...]

[...] It is a form of popular education. So to sum up, we can say the NRA has a lot of money, which opens the doors of Congress, and credulous supporters on its side, whereas those who want weapons to be banned, or at least controlled, can count on the solidarity of victims as well as public speakers such as artists and politicians like Barack Obama. But will that be enough to stop violence? During this time, people will continue to die . [...]

[...] As well, neighbor countries like Canada and Me-xico did not ban alcohol so some people could benefit from the situation and buy alcohol there. To conclude, the Prohibition was the solution to heal a sick society but it had bad consequences and it surely did not work, so we can say that it was not an idea of progress. I think the government should not regulate people's lives with the January Dry Challange, which consists in people stopping drinking alochol for a month. [...]

[...] But was the society truly rid of the issue we saw before? As a matter of fact, people just do not respect the law: indeed bootlegers sold illegal liquors and drank in speakeasies or even distilled they own spirits called moonshine. Futhermore in class we studied the Valentine's Day massacre, which was a fight between two gangs, including Al Capone's. The latter was a famous gangster during the Prohibiton, compared to Robin Hood because he gave money to the jobless. [...]