Title: "Power Comes From the Barrel of a Gun" - took the opposing view
             "Would you respect me, If I didn't have this gun?
             'Cause without it, I don't get it,
             And that's why I carry one."
             Power. A word from which many meanings derive. To each individual, it means something distinct and it is how one uses
             their power that makes up who they are. Power does not come from the barrel of a gun. A gun can do nothing without
             someone there to pull the trigger. The power to take a life rests within the person, the gun simply serving as their tool.
             When groups protesting for a cause they believe in use violent tactics, do they ever accomplish anything? When we kill ,
             what do we achieve? To say that power lies in the barrel of a gun is to say that the most effective way to get what we
             want, or what we feel we deserve is to murder. It is only those with no faith in their dreams, or belief in themselves who
             could make such a statement.
             Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." A leader in the
             Black community and the recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, King's accomplishment of attaining civil rights for
             Blacks was a great one, but the road to achievement was long and full of sacrifices. It was a time when Blacks had no
             rights and most of them accepted this as the way it was and no one could do anything about it. Most of them, but not
             King. When the police arrested a black woman for sitting in the front of the bus and refusing to give up her seat to a white
             woman, King led a committee that organized a...