Violence Case

Americans feel that violence is dangerous but at the same time necessary in our country. Some Americans think that violence is necessary because they think that with violence they will get more out of a person. For example instead of using kind words to someone you may carry a gun and show it to the person and they will take you more serious than just with one kind word. Also in the story The Power of Words in Wartime by Robin Tolmach Lakoff it states that Americans try to convince us that violence is okay since war is necessary in our country. With violence being at high so many people especially women believe that carrying weapons is okay to feel protective. Like Linda M. Hasselstorm wrote on her story A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun she carried a gun to feel safer.

Robin T. Lakoff and Linda M. Hasselstorm both believed that violence is sometimes necessary to feel protected. Linda carried a gun to feel safer and to protect herself from any harm. But what if she felt as if everybody were the bad guys? Would she shoot everybody that came in her way? Sometimes violence can be dangerous to one or more human beings, one could feel they are in danger and act in a violent way like start hitting a person. Also if you have a weapon you can kill someone with it. Americans also think that violence is necessary for war. We need war to protect us from other countries who are trying to harm us. Even if Americans tell us that violence is bad we still use it.

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