I am not much of a speaker

today we had a public speech concurs in english at school.. and I had to participate cause I was chosen from the class as the black sheep [no one else wanted to go] and I got to know about this event only few days before so I had almost no time to get ready but anywho... the topic for the speech were "Words are like loaded guns" and as I am more of a writing than speaking person I thought that I could share my speech with you so here it goes ^^ [hope you'll enjoy it]

"People say that words are like loaded guns. They can shoot and by that hurt you any moment, sometimes even without a purpose. I myself would like to adjust a bit this statement. For as you see words are not the ones being guns. They are more likely to be seen as bullets for that gun, not the gun itself. A human mind on the other hand lets itself to be compared with a loaded gun very easy. It holds the thought that can later on be shouted out and become word - bullet. A human mind just like a gun can be used for both protection and attacking but for some reason that is unknown to me it’s mostly used for attacking. Just like a gun. It is well known fact that words can hurt someone a lot more than a gun could ever have. Though, while a real gun is made for physical injuring mind is made for mental wounding. And most of the times it’s a lot harder to recover from a mental than physical injury. Of curse this can not be related to all cases as any other hypocritical statement but it can be applied to most of them. Funny it seems that so many rules are made for the purchasing of a weapon like a gun and such supervision is made upon those who own one while a mind and words stay uncontrolled. Some might say that it’s logical and the idea of censoring ones thoughts and words itself is unhuman and must be suppressed. But what if by using just words a lethal outcome is made? Shouldn’t society protect itself from such possibility that words are used for smothering, controlling and injuring? But looking on the world as it is now I understand that this is impossible. Too many evil deeds have been done using words and too many rotten thoughts lies in human heads. It’s too late for a try to control it by the force of law and it would also ask for too much of an effort to do that. If only there would be a way how to sweep those aggressive thoughs out of humans heads. A chance how to unload the gun so it can’t be used for wounding. And here a question appears. Who could ever do that? None, none but the person itself. The way of thinking must be changed before the gun can become neutralized. How to do it? Only a person itself can answer to this question. Only by ones strong will and real action the gun he holds in his head can be unloaded. So it would never strike and injure again."