As I read Professor Hamamoto’s “Empire of Death and the
Plague of Civic Violence,” I was very shocked and disturbed by the details he
reveals. Personally, I was never a big fan of history and never followed
politics or the news. Every once in a while long after the incident, I would
hear about the shooting or mass killing; but I was never intrigued immediately
after it took place because I am not as informed as most people. Recently,
however, after taking more Asian American Studies courses and doing more
reading assigned in these classes, I have been able to connect more of the dots.
Although our nation is the land of the free, I feel that we also bound by
weapons and dependent on violence in order to solve a lot of our problems. This
becomes very dangerous for those who are incapable of processing these weapons
and puts the vulnerable into a more insecure position. What can the public do
to change these policies?
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