Gun Violence

                        How Guns Affect the Mind

Guns cause chaos not only throughout the world but throughout the                                               mind as well

   

This picture is very powerful and could be interpreted in countless different ways. In my perception of this picture the authors message is one of self harm. The gun symbolizing violence and turned towards the shooter as if to mean than when you shoot who are you really hurting, why, what is the purpose. Not only will you cause others an immense amount of emotional pain but it represents the mental pain you will cause yourself. This does a great job representing how guns affect the mind.

June 7th
Gun Yourself by Banksy
http://www.icanvas.com

In this image you see a little kid no more than 10 with a handgun in his coat pocket at the playground. This is proof that the massive amount of debate and the hype behind guns is affecting youth as well. With the huge amount of talk surrounding guns, our youth is also receiving the message but in a negative way. With young children's minds still developing and absorbing everything they hear they are easily susceptible to the ideas they hear. This can benefit them in ways such as working hard in school and other things but it can also open them

to a whole world of negativity as represented in this picture.                                                    June 7th

Guns can affect whole generations without even being used,                    Boy with Gun in Playground

which is a very scary thought.                                                                      http://www.stevenedson.net
                                                    

                                                                                 

This picture is the epitome of the armed forces. Men fighting for peace, ironic because the cost of peace is violence and bloodshed. In the picture we see a soldier painting a peace sign while the other soldier keeps watch. I feel as if the artist painted the peace sign and made it drip to represent how peace comes with a price. Another ironic point about this picture is the fact that the soldier that is painting needs another to look out for him and watch his back. It shows how guns corrupt people and cause them to loose their sense of humanity. If we cannot paint signs of peace without protection how can we basically do anything without feeling insecure or unprotected?




June 7th
Soldiers Painting Peace by Banksy
http://www.imagekind.com



Finally a cartoon representing how powerful gun violence is and how prominent it is in today's society. To relate this back to how guns affect you mentally is very simple. Guns rule everything... its just that simple. As the picture says gun violence is a multi headed monster, in my mind this means that you will not be able to stop this problem ever. You can cut the head off the snake but there's 10 more waiting for you. And taking care of the problem is not just addressing the shooters, its talking to everyone about the seriousness of the matter at hand and how guns affect you and everyone else. Simply speaking about guns can cause issues mentally to people which is impossible to stop, that is something that I get from this picture. And as it states in the picture gun violence is a multi headed monster, one of those heads being the impact guns have on the mind.





                                                                                                                                                     June 7th
                                                                                                 Gun Violence is a Multi Headed Monster
                                            http://blog.al.com/jdcrowe/2013/01/gun_violence_is_a_multi-headed.html