Handgun Persuasive Speech

Taking the life of another is as simple as sustaining your own. Killing another person is one thing that humans have done since the beginning of time, whether it was at war, for revenge, psychopathic tendencies, or in-the-moment bloodlust it’s something we're wired to do and we do it well. Over time we’ve made it easier, faster, and more emotionally dislocated. Pulling the trigger of a handgun has boiled it down to a simple process, making it so that even an untrained mind can do it subconsciously and without consequence. Without realizing that you’ve just destroyed the life of another simply by contracting your index finger, firing a handgun is perhaps the easiest way to sustain your own life and taking another’s. When you first
learn the proper usage and handling of a handgun they give you a list of do’s and don'ts. Don’t point the barrel of the gun at another person unless you mean to kill them. Don’t put your finger in the trigger well unless you intend to kill someone. Don’t leave your weapon loaded in public unless you intend to take the life of another. Do always maintain positive control of your weapon. So really there are more don’t than do’s but really their main point is, don’t kill. What purpose does a handgun serve other than to take the life of another? Sports, hunting, showmanship, and perhaps a million other purposes, but the number one reason someone learns to use a handgun is for self-defense, to kill them before they kill you. If you decide that after learning the do’s and don’ts that using a handgun is something for you, you’ll begin to dive into weapon handling and proper functions.
Where things are in your weapon and what purpose they serve. For this, they will use a simple handgun such at the Glock 19 and summarize the components. You’ve got the Barrel, the component that guides the fired round out of the weapon and at your target. Next the Slide, perhaps the heaviest and most recognizable piece, this part is cocked back and used to load the round. Inside we have the recoil spring which pushes your slide back to auto reload the next round after firing the first. A firing pin which penetrates the ignition on the back of a bullet, sending it flying down the barrel at your next victim. You have the frame which houses most of these components and allows then to you work in a flawless manner making it as easy as possible to get the next round off. The magazine which houses all your rounds and is sitting in the magazine well, waiting to spring your next round into the firing chamber. A bullet or round that loads into the magazine containing fire powder and a rounded off piece of metal meant to incapacitate anything it penetrates. Lastly the trigger, the simple device that allows you to apply only five pounds of pressure and sends a 9mm round of metal flying at 1000 feet per second straight into the chest of your next enemy. These components all make up a weapon designed to make killing
faster, effective, and easier. After learning the components and how they work together you’ll step onto a range. Ranges will normally be a dirt field with a large dirt wall and silhouette target, mimicking human bodies. You’ll load your magazine with bullets. Load the magazine into the magazine well, taking great care to handle your weapon properly. Cock back the slide, loading a round into the firing chamber, taking aim awaiting commands from the range officer. The last two steps are at times simultaneous but are also not to be done until expressly directed by the range officer, “remove the safety and prepare to fire”. Taking careful aim you are now given permission to deliver precise and deadly force to the target ahead of you. Pulling the trigger, you are lodging the firing pin into the bullet you loaded and sending it on a direct path to your target. You maintain a tight grip and good stance, fighting the recoiled of your weapon as it dispenses enormous amounts of power out of tight spaces. You finished off your fifteen-round magazine and remove it from the weapon, showing that your weapon is clear and that you are no longer a threat to your surroundings. Congratulations, you’ve now experience the immense power that mankind has created and now have the means to effectively end the life of another. The act of taking another human's life was at one point strenuous and mentally demanding. The effects of beating another person with your hand and being forced to see the damage you have left, created mental scars and lasting memories of the act. By pulling the trigger of a handgun, you’ve taken the personable act out of murder and replaced it with a mechanical pull. You never have to watch the person die, you never have to be close enough to hear their screams or see the damage you inflicted. You can simply step away and marvel at the fact that you are still alive and at no consequence. What once took strength and preservice to survive now only takes the loading of a bullet into a metal object and pulling the trigger, allowing a bullet to do the work for you.