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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Guns don't kill people

Everyone at one time in their lives, have heard the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words," but does anyone really know the true meaning of that statement? What it really means is that a picture can tell a story just as well, if not better, than a large amount of text can. Not everyone sees the same things from every image out there though. Some people see a picture of a gun and the words that might come to mind may be violence, or dangerous, or even death. While some people on the tort hand, might think of the words safety, or protection, or life. No one will think that an image means the same thing as someone else, which is also the same for peoples' take on the allowance of concealed hand guns on campuses of higher education. Images people use to get their opinions across to everyone else have been very effective, like the image you see above. Comparing Obama's opinion about gun control to people in history who have tried to control people, can be seen as a negative thing and a positive thing. Negative because the image is pretty much bashing Obama's reputation and calling him a dictator. It is also positive because it might be seen as such an exaggerated attempt to make the president look bad, that people don't believe it, and they end up agreeing with the president. It all really just depends who the person that is looking at the picture, is. Imagery plays a big role in people's lives because images really do speak a thousand words. Whether it is for the allowance of concealed hand guns on higher level campuses, or not. A single picture that convey that as simply as possible, without the use of descriptive text, because sometimes words just can't say what a picture can.

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