Summary : In the article I’ve Owned Six Guns I’ve Drawn on Bad Guys I want To Be Understood, the author Walter Kim changes his views on gun laws due to numerous shooting outbursts across America. Kim has owned guns since he was a child and prides himself on being a gun owner. He embarks on personal stories of him protecting his family with a gun against an escaped prisoner and a intoxicated robber. When the shootings at a movie theater in Auroa Colorado, a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the Sandy Hook school shooting in Massachusetts his pro-gun point of view started to change. Kim describes owning and using a gun gives a person “power over the power of the gun.” According to Kim, guns change your neural pathways by playing with imaginative scenarios that are unlikely to occur if a person did not…show more content… He tells of his army friends who implied that soldiers would attack fellow American citizens if ordered to and not think twice about the actions they would perform. “The unarmed fear the armed, but the armed are disposed to fear the better armed,” Kim states. This type of fear can bond people together for the wrong reasons, in this case pro-gun citizens stand together to face the government that would unleash military attack for disobeying any new gun prohibition that may be instilled in America. The many armed citizens will be seen as criminals instead of members of a gun activist team and the armed forces will do their party to regulate their actions. If tighter gun laws are designed then Kim believes there will be fewer murders. A stricter gun law would help civilize people by restricting their options for weaponry. Catastrophic acts of violence will decrease with tighter
