THE US GUN CULTURE

The US Gun Culture 

The United States is one of the countries where gun violence is more present. We have seen a document from the Brady Campaign where they show the number of people killed in the US because of gun violence compared to other develloped countries. We can see that the difference is pretty big. 

But before showing other examples of documents, let's just give a quick look to two main definitions. 

The Founding fathers of the United States were the individuals of the Thirteen British Colonies in North America who lead the American Revolution against the authority of the British Crown and established the United States of America.

Another key definition is National Rifle Association which is an american non profit organization which for gun rights. It was founded in 1871. The group has informed its members about firearm-related bills since 1934, and it has directly lobbied for and against legislation since 1975.

This document is a cartoon from Steve Sack called Gun Lobby and Congress from 2010.

In this document we can see two characters downwards from the Capitol. One is dressed in brown and has a bag with the dollar sign written on it, and a briefcase where we can read "Gun Lobby". He says to the other character "Now, where were we, before we were so rudly interrupted...". The other character dressed in blue has also a briefcase with the word "Congress" on it. Both men are smiling. The men with the moustache seems to be giving the dollar bad to the other man as if they were negociating something just before being "interrupted". He is bribing him. We suppose that this man is from the NRA (National Rifle Association). From the Congress, we can see blood flowing down the stairs as if a tragedy was happening inside of it. This tragedy is probably assosiated to a gun attack. The gun lobbist man let us think that he makes business with the gun sale. It is a critic of the bribery done by those people (in this example the NRA) who create business thanks to the gun sale. 

The next document we are going to talk about is a caricature from Dave Grandlund called Second Amendment and NRA (2013).

This document compares two types of man ownering guns. The statue from the left is a statue from someone from the Founding fathers' age, and the one on the right is from someone from nowadays. Let's talk first about the one on the left. It is a statue, as we already described, from someone around the 19th century. The statue is represented with a simple riffle and dressed as a soldier from that age. He seems to be a soldier fighting in the Independance war. This statue doesn't bother anyone because we see it as an usual ancient soldier with just one riffle. Compared to it, we see the other soldier from the right, owning 3 dangerous riffles, and with ammunition under him. We also notice two hand guns hooked on his knees. We can conclude that this man is full of armament. This is also a critic about the NRA because in this man on the right is a amendment defined by the NRA. It seems that the NRA gives too many armament to civil or army people. It arrives to a level that it is ridiculous. With just one weapon is fine to