POST 11- THE US GUN CULTURE

1.  Both posters are from the same campaign : "Brady campaign". The slogan is:"To prevent gun violence".
And there is also a website to join this battle: www.bradycampaign.org.
After the second constitution laws were applied to authorize the bears of arms for the security of the free State.
The Brady Campaign supports a policy platform that addresses the problem of gun violence and is driven by the opportunity to save the most lives.There are over 300 million guns in America.
These tragic deaths occur because of the weapons culture. In fact guns are integrated in the US culture.
The gun has the US flag in colours and is more modern than the poster of 2004 which is in black and white and seems to have been drawn. 
We can also see that in 2004 11.344 people were murdered by guns in the US while recently the number is lower (9.484). Besides, they have incresead in Canada and England and Wales.
The moto "God bless America" is very ironic.
Robert Lafayette Frye which was an educator and politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana sends a worried message about the absence of control of guns in his country.
This violence is part of the society.
For example, in 1999 two teenage boys at Columbine High school near Denver massacred 12 students and a teacher.
How can they manage to avoid that? Could they forbid guns after so much time?

2.

 The first graph is about gun murders compared by countries. We can see that compared to the other undevelopped countries such as Honduras, El Salvador,Guattemala, United States is 26th.
But i'ts important to add that the US is suposed to be"The best country of the world, very modern,with the best constitution,free etc..." and that countries like Honduras or El Salvador still be developing countries where violence and gangs are omnipresent. How can we compare the leading world power to the other countries?
On the other hand US is the first developed country so far compared to Norway,Australia,Canada to have the higher number of gun murder.
Which is quite contradictory and reflect a struggle in the US culture.

3.

This cartoon criticize the congress toward the gun culture in the United States. We can see two caracters in front of the Capitol. One represent the Gun Lobby and the other one the congress and the Gun Lobby is giving to the congress a lot of money.They are both smiling,which is very caricatural and ironic.The blood in the stair symbolize the fact that they have been shootings in the congress. The cartoonist criticize the access to guns, and the violence of this topic. And of course the government which is more interrested by the money than the blood.

4.

In this cartoon there are two parts. On the left, a statue which represent the second amendment we can see a soldier holding a gun and one the left a "parody" of this statue with a member of the National Rifle Association who have many guns and who is standing on munition. One looks proud while the other looks more anxious. This cartoon obviously criticize the fact that the second amendment have giving to the population of USA the right to bear arms and not to protect themselfs  anymore because this right have become a danger. It also criticize the NRA which had taking profit and made a buisness of the gun culture.