Fist Stick Knife Gun Analysis

It was the summer of 2007, the day after the fourth of july. Fireworks were still going off. The atmosphere was light, filled with laughter and smiles. Nobody had noticed my cousin’s body drop to the pavement but me.I was staring at the group of masked people when it all happened. I vividly remember them approaching him whilst pointing a gun to his head. After tugging onto my mother’s pink silk shirt and pointing towards my cousin, it was chaotic. Everyone had ran towards him except for my aunt. My aunt’s feet were glued to the pavement and her mouth stood agape. A tear ran down her cheek and she then collapsed. A couple days after my cousin’s neurosurgery, my aunt remained the same. During his recovery she never really spoke unless she needed
government should limit the use of gun ownership is because people have the mindset that you need a gun to protect yourself or others. That should not be the case, we should be teaching men, women, and children to not harm others. For example, in the article, “Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America,” by Geoffrey Canada he states: “I needed the gun because we had moved from Union Avenue to 183rd Street in the Bronx, but I still traveled back to Union Avenue during holidays when I was home from school. The trip involved walking through some increasingly dangerous territory.”This means that Geoffrey felt safer with a gun in his pocket while he walked the streets of New York. Statistics show that if you own a gun you are very likely to hurt yourself more than others. Therefore, I strongly believe the U.S government should be inching towards adding more restrictions with gun use because why give people weapons to protect themselves rather than teach others to not
No one thinks about how many mistakes it can make, just how it can ‘protect’ them. In the article “10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down” written by Dave Gilson it states: ”In one survey, nearly 1% of Americans reported using guns to defend themselves or their property. However, a closer look at their claims found that more than 50% involved using guns in an aggressive manner, such as escalating an argument.” This means that even though people’s intentions with guns are to protect themselves what they actually do with it is far from that. We should have more gun laws to avoid situations like