When news of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting reverberated across the country on December 14, 2012, every office, living room, and Classrooms were silent. The shooter, Adam Lanza, had just killed twenty-eight people, including twenty children no more than ten years old (Vogel). Since this tragic event, other shootings have occurred across the country. Massive debates and demands for congressional action on gun violence and gun control have sparked the search for an appropriate solution. Despite President Obama's calls for change, gun advocates such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) have successfully dissuaded many government officials from passing anti-gun laws. Cartoonists Mike Luckovich, Dave Granlund and Rob Rogers used several techniques to illustrate their views on the issue of school safety as well as the NRA's involvement in hindering the safety of children across the country. Luckovich's drawing depicts three children sitting in their respective desks while holding different objects. Using the labeling technique, one child with two guns is labeled "NRA", another child with wads of cash and is named "Gun Makers", while the last child is named "Congress" with bags of “Campaign Cash” (Luckovich). . A few days before this cartoon was published, President Obama proposed “radical gun law proposals…[which] sparked a range of reactions” (Malloy). Members of Congress are often incentivized to vote a certain way based on who offers a large sum of money for campaign efforts. Luckovich insinuates in the cartoon that the money in the "Campaign Cash" bag came from the "Gun Makers", symbolizing the redemption of the greedy votes of members of Congress against any laws restricting guns and provoking a wide range of responses . of paper......January 16, 2013. Web. February 23, 2015. Mason, Mélanie. “NRA-backed task force unveils wide-ranging school safety proposal.” Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2013. Web. February 22, 2014.Rogers, Rob. “Guns For Kids” May 7, 2013. Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Newspaper source. Internet. February 22, 2015. Vogel, Steve, Sari Horwitz and David A. Fahrenthold. "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting leaves 28 dead, law enforcement sources say." Washington Post. The Washington Post, December 15, 2012. Web. February 23, 2015. Watts, Catherine E. Shoichet. Amanda, Wolf Blitzer, Jason Hanna and Karan Olson. “Nevada school shooting: teacher killed, two students injured.” CNN. Cable News Network, January 1, 1970. Web. February 22, 2015. Wing, Nick. “We've had so many mass shootings in the United States that we've had to redefine the term.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, September 17, 2013. Web. February 22. 2015.