Analysis Of Rob Rogers 'Cartoon USA GUNS'

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Cartoons can be used in different ways. People can chose to use cartoons ranging anywhere from comedy to advertisements. The amount of power an image holds can change the way a person thinks. Rob Rogers is a cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Rogers has recently drawn a cartoon that represents the type of state the country is under. Rogers can make people ponder with his cartoon titled USA GUNS being illustrated and related to different things which are going right now in the country, and having different meaning and representations on the type of person behind the counter, as well as recent news, and a USA GUNS banner to represent the country.
In the cartoon there is a gun salesmen who appears to be in his own gun shop. The store …show more content…

In one of the salesmen’s gun selection there is a gun with a note that reads “Movie Night”. Rogers is referencing tragic events that took time this year. There are many people who are always on the move and going to events. People like tourist, shoppers, music fans, sport fans all attend events that count potentially be ruined by some idiot with a gun. “Great for all occasions” represents that it wasn’t just a onetime shooting thing that happened. No. it has happened more than once and still could keeping going on. Wrong ideas could come to those who obtain a weapon easy. People can become scared that another person could come and take away their freedom or family. A threat to a person’s safety can cause many emotion like fear or anger. So people decide to protect themselves by baring …show more content…

Everyone has to be a certain place at a certain time most of the time. A thing that almost everyone has in common is work. How scary is to know that even at work you could potentially not be safe? The USA GUNS cartoon has a picture of a gun with a note that says “take your gun to work day”. How scary is it to know that it could be true, that at any moment something could go wrong at work. No one is really safe. You never know how someone can flip out and try to attempt something stupid. Someone is going to have to take a sacrifice in a worst case scenario. Rogers really made me wonder about the future. He made me wonder what it really takes for people of a community to strive and live in