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| Rogers, Rob. "This Sounds Familiar" Rob Rogers. N.p., 10 June 2012. Web. 18 Sept. 2016. |
Rob Rogers’ political cartoon on gun
control tries to show the parallel between the 1950s when people were claiming
smoking was healthy and today when people are trying to say that having easy
access to guns isn’t one of the reasons behind many mass shootings. Rob Rogers
is an award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, his
works have received multiple awards for their satirical look at current world
issues. In 1999, Rob was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Currently with scientific and
medical research we now know that smoking does cause many lung diseases and is
in fact not a very healthy habit for people to do. We are also realizing today
that one of the big reasons behind mass shootings is how easy it is for people
to access guns. Rogers’ purpose of creating this cartoon is to point out to people
that the same situation with smoking is going to happen again with gun law
controls. He’s trying to show people that since we’re now kicking ourselves for
not realizing sooner that tobacco is harmful the same thing is going to happen
in the future with gun violence. Rogers achieves his purpose by making what
both of the men say very similar. By having the men say basically the same
thing, he’s portraying how history is going to repeat itself and that we as a
country will be regretting not making stricter gun laws sooner.
Rogers’ primary audience is everyone
in the country. He wants everyone to notice the similarities between the two
events so we can band together as country to make a change. Then his secondary
audience is people who don’t think that gun control is a real issue. They’re his
other audience because he knows that in order to spark any changing in gun
control laws he has to make people like this change their perspective on how
they see gun violence.
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