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A Long Way Gone
   My personal opinion of weapons of in general is that they are inhumane. They are a way to hurt others and are found to be destructive. Some are less powerful then others, but in truth they are all created to do harm.
   In "A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Child Soldier", we are introduced to the long journey (physical and psychological) of Ishmael Beah. His exposure to the war, and most importantly his exposure to the kinds of weapons used. The use of weapons such as guns and bombs had only increase the numbers of death. Though they were not as inhumane as the use of an atomic bomb, they still were wrong. Ismael was forced into the war because of the lack in numbers of soldiers and because in that time he was to either contribute some way or leave and fend for himself. When he did fight, he was forced to use all these weapons in order to survive and not be killed. I believe that he should have never been forced into a war he didn't start. More importantly I do not believe anyone should be forced into war. Death by weapons in immoral and to be honestly true I don't support war. As for the war going on in Sierra Leone at the time, children should have never been involved and never exposed to the harsh, violent, destructive, weapons.

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