Ben
Sorensen
English
1A
Felischer
17
March 2014
Visual Rhetoric
The object that I will be creating
is an assault rifle. Due to university restrictions, I would not be allowed to
bring in a real gun, so clay will suffice. I will most likely use an air-dry
clay and get as detailed as possible with it. I also am going to be wildling my
own hammer out of wood and attaching a piece of metal to the top to create the
head. You may ask: well why is he making a hammer? The answer to that question
would be, because in the year 2011, blunt objects, such as the hammer, caused
more deaths than the assault rifle. This shows that assault rifles have a
terrible connotation to them and people (especially liberals) think that they
are the root of all evil.
I am going to paint a piece of
plywood and mount both of the objects upon it. The plywood will be painted red
and under each object will have the number of deaths that they caused painted
it in white numbers. This will stress my point of view that gun control is not
something that this nation needs and people need to understand that its not the
weapons that do the killing, but the people using them. Prohibiting the right
to bear arms will only take guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens,
rendering it impossible to stop a killer who goes to all costs to illegally
obtain a firearm and commit mass murder.
Based on the reading of Ben Sorensen's object description, his sculpture is trying to convey the message that gun control should be severely relaxed in the United States. It is going to represent this point as there is much controversy to gun control in the U. S. and valid points to both sides of the argument. The intended audience is the young people such as us who may be just starting to develop our views on the topic of gun control and are thus the most susceptible to persuasion. The object definitely reminds me of the fact that I agree with Ben entirely that gun control needs to be more relaxed, especially here in California. Whenever I think about firearms here in California, I get really frustrated because as a law abiding citizen I should be able to obtain more firearms more easily. Compared to the rest of the country, California is one of the strictest when it comes to gun laws. These laws hinder or fully prohibit me from obtaining fully tactical weaponry that I would use to defend the people I care about or sporting/leisure enjoyment.
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