Persuasive Essay
It was a calm cool Friday night in Edmond, Oklahoma. A young woman had just left the gas station after purchasing a pack of cigarettes, “the one with the camel”, she had shyly asked the clerk. The woman, whom looked as if she were in her early twenties, was wearing a bright pink hat with matching gloves, and a long green scarf. She was headed toward her car, an old faded blue ‘78 Chevy Malibu. It wasn’t a fast car, not an especially good looking car, but it was her car, and that is all that mattered to her. As the young woman walked the clerk watched; there weren’t many people that stopped by this station, nor any others in his experience, at these times of the night. The woman unlocked her car door and ignited the engine, and she began to pull off into the dead street. Just then, two men came out from the side of the fence that separated the station from the nearby motel. The two men, each brandishing a military style blade, began hollering at the woman to step out of the car. Who is to know what these two men wanted; the car? The woman? Or did they just want blood to prove themselves to their gang comrades. Upon seeing the two men springing on the woman, the station clerk pulled out his tool for just such an occasion; he had a 12 gauge shotgun hidden underneath the counter. The clerk started out the door flying a shotgun and a war cry. One of the men ran upon seeing the fiery clerk, and the other found himself trapped behind the barrel. The clerk held the delinquent until the police arrived at the scene to arrest him. What if we lived in a world in which that clerk was forced to give up his arms that he uses everyday to protect himself and others. What could he have done? Call the police and wait as he watches the criminals take what they wanted from the defenseless woman?
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." This is the quote of...