Analysis Of The Right To Bear Clubs, By Dave Barry

Clubs and Arms: Same Thing, Right?
The second amendment is a very heavily controversial subject. More conservative people are pro-second amendment, while more liberal people are anti-second amendment. In Dave Barry’s horatian satirical article, “The Right to bear clubs”, the second amendment comes into light. Barry tries to lighten the subject of guns by using the Ballistic Golf Club as an example for the gun, and by trying to tell America, specifically the anti-gun party, that guns are okay to have. If a person were to be in the anti-gun party, they would want stronger gun control laws or to simply ban guns altogether. Barry thinks this is completely and utterly ridiculous. Barry tries to convince the anti-gun party that guns are acceptable

In this article, Barry uses hyperboles to get his point across. For example, when he says “the club can hit your ball 500 yards away!”, the ball probably would not be able to go 500 yards away, instead he uses this literary device to poke fun at the anti-gun party. Barry also uses sarcasm in his article, stating “we’ll need to develop a technologically advanced golf ball”, I mean that’s just ridiculous. Barry comes up with this new, revolutions golf club, just as we came up with newer, revolutionized guns where we don’t have to load a new bullet after every shot. Barry also states the “Ballistic Driver has a safety”, just as guns do. He goes on to say people have to always act as if the “Ballistic Driver is always loaded”, which is Gun Safety 101. Barry emphasizes if the people are taught to handle the Ballistic Driver with care and are properly taught how to use it, it is potentially harmless, just as people are taught with guns. Barry is definitely pro-second amendment. He states it is our constitutional right, and our forefathers fought for our right to bear arms. He says people just need to be careful. Barry also uses humor to get his point of the right to bear arms across, using the laziness of humans not wanting to swing a club to evoke laughter. Barry vilely pokes fun at America’s laziness, which seems to be a growing problem. A number of American gun deaths come from the problem of being too