Argument Against Gun Control

Gun control is an extremely controversial issue in the United States, and the debates around this topic has started many decades ago. According to the article “Gun Rights vs. Gun control” by Brianna Gurciullo, these debates are fueled by the people who defend the gun rights and the people who advocate in favor of gun control. It has been difficult to prove that gun ownership is directly related to an increase in violence due to the fact that researches tend to disagree on the impact of gun ownership in the American society. These debates tend to be brought to the spotlight whenever there is a mass shooting in the United States, which according to Abbey Oldham, who is a reporter from the PBS News Hour, happens quite frequently. However, organizations, such as the National Rifle Association (NRA), defend that the laws for gun control violate the Second Amendment of the constitution, which states “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” stated Gurciullo. Due to the distinct interpretations of the constitution and the difficulty to agree on the best approach to tackle the issue, this controversy seem to be almost unsolvable.

Seventeen people are dead in the state of Florida because of gun control. In the article, “Famous Speeches: "We call BS," Emma Gonzalez's speech to gun advocates”, by Emma Gonzalez gives a perspective of one mass shooting situation. Also in article, “Issue Overview: Guns in America”, by Bloomberg gives a perspective of many mass shooting situations. These two serious articles equate in many ways, although they differentiate in numerous ways as well.

"Battleground America," written by Jill Lepore, provides a strong history of guns and the way they have changed in the eyes of the American through the years. She proves her point with strong evidence throughout her article, sprinkling it with opinion and argument that is strongly supported. She presents her argument to convince her audience that the open availability of guns allows citizens to undeservingly purchase them by displaying the credibility in her sources, using negative connotations in her speech, and the strength and objectivity only a strong logos appeal can provide.

In today’s society, there is plenty to talk about. Whether it be about the President, the weather change, there is always something to talk about. One of the major issues that has been talked about for an extended period of time is gun control and the issues that follow it. There are two specific articles that were chosen today; one of which from the Chicago Sun Times website, and the other from the New York Times.

The author makes several main claims throughout his articles such as, “national news stories are virtually never done on permit holders stopping mass public shootings,” and “the proposals put forward by gun control advocates wouldn’t have stopped this attack.” The columnist firmly believes in the power of the second amendment and as such, he wants to limit the amount of new laws that control how much the people can hold and use weapons. The claims listed are claims of fact and policy respectively. He gives several examples of how these different prevented mass shootings were not widely advertised and how the ones that were not stopped were all over news stations to convince people that guns are not helping the common people. The author then proposes that the changes that gun control advocates propose will not make a difference and begins to give reasons why which makes this a claim of policy. He says that making a change will not make any change so the laws should be left the same as they are now, or they should be more inclusive to allow more people to carry a concealed weapon.

Gun control has been a hot topic in this country for many years. Gun control advocates will use instances such as Sandy Hook to further their agenda in removing weapons out of law-abiding American hands. On the other end of the spectrum, the gun advocates claim that any form of gun restriction goes against their constitutional rights to bear arms. In 2013, Commentary Magazine printed and article written by Benjamin Domenech discussing how gun laws will not lower mass shootings in the United States. Domench has been writing politically motived articles for almost 20 years. He has an extensive knowledge of speech writing for various political offices, such as for George W Bush (Domenech, Ben). The experience needed to write effective speeches that will target a wide audience helps him out in the article.

The overwhelming amount of evidence for both arguments indicates that the target audience for this article would be individuals who feel it is time to be well informed to make a assessment about whether gun laws should or should not continue going the way they are. The Kairos in this article further backs that statement in the first sentence about, “when Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed legislation this month banning concealed weapons on school campuses, the nation was in the midst of one of the worst spasms of gun violence at colleges in recent years” (Nagourney and Turkewitz, 1). Nagourney and Turkewitz are showing the broad-spectrum audience what is being done in reaction to these travesties that keep transpiring.

Semeiks briefly describes the feeling of disbelief captured in the poem. But proceeds to inform us that this tragedy was not enough to evoke a dramatic change in the gun ownership regulations. The author points out that even after the Sandy Hook massacre very little was done to strengthen the control on gun ownership. He speculates that the lack of legislative measures seems to be rooted in the American culture of gun ownership, promoted and lobbied by the National Rifle Association (NRA). He searches for the main reasons behind these tragedies, finding them in the American traditions, lack of empathy displayed from Congress and the NRA. However, as Semeiks clearly points out, seventy-five percent of Americans do not own any guns, while some people own a large number of weapons including assault rifles. And that is one of the main arguments behind the demonstrations for restrictions of gun ownership – it is not to limit one’s right to defend oneself and protect one’s property and family, or to limit hunting, but to prevent the loss of many lives. He farther speculates that the questions for restrictions of guns as way of limiting one’s freedom is “a neat trick to deflect the increasing inequality in our society and the growing dissatisfaction and anxiety.” He concludes by mentioning the “shameful failure” of Congress to enact simple gun control legislation and pointing out that sometimes decisions cannot be based only on logic but should be based also on “empathy and

Cristal Bueno English 102 11 September 2014 Guns, should they be in the hands of anyone? Adam Gopnik published his article “The Simple Truth About Gun Control” on the New Yorker magazine on December of 2012, right after the incident that had happened in Newtown, Connecticut. This brutal incident left many parents scarred for life. They lost their six to seven year old children in a school. Twenty children and six adults had died that day.

Former President Barack Obama performed a speech in response to a mass shooting that happened in a community college in Oregon. This speech included other gun related incidents which occurred during his time in office in 2015 regarding Umpqua Community College and Roseburg. After giving his condolences and love to those who felt loss in their hearts, Obama gave a powerful argument regarding gun control and how we, as Americans, should fight and strive for better gun laws. While Obama gave a moving speech, I could not help but feel it fell short in its argument while conducting a thorough critique. Obama appealed to his audience utilizing pathos and ethos with ease but fell short for those in the audience looking for logos or specific facts within his performance. I will be taking this opportunity to delve further into an analysis of this speech and both its heights and pitfalls.

Gun control is a debate that has escalated dramatically in recent years. The Second Amendment states “to the United States Constitution protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms.” , but at what point is that line crossed where it is questioned whether we are allowed to bear arms or not? Mark Follman, a writer for the LA times, wrote an article “America 's mass-shootings epidemic” that talks about how mass murders have been escalating over the past decades. This article is geared towards readers between the ages of twenty to fifty because of the use of statistics that appeals to this age group who are mainly set out to redeem fact. Heidi Yewman, a writer for USA Today, wrote an article “Don 't 'like ' Facebook 's gun solution: Column” about how Facebook does not take caution when online weapon exchanges occur. This article is geared more towards an eighteen to thirty year old audience because of the editor’s use of trying to relate to her reader. Mark Follman’s article is logos-driven because he uses facts that he has collected in order to show his reader how mass murders have escalated. Heidi Yewman’s article is more ethos-driven because her use of herself as examples to support her writing.

As an opponent of gun control I feel like taking away guns from civilians to try and ease the mind of the rest of the population won’t work because disarming a law-abiding citizen won’t disarm the criminal waiting for a chance to hurt, rob, or kill someone because they know they can’t protect themselves because their weapons were taken away. Gun laws don’t need to be changed to stop murders and theft to effectively fix the way we look at guns we as people need to change our attitude towards each other as humans because we promote violence and death in so many ways, we see violence in movies, TV shows. In some states we promote and legalized assisted suicide, as Kentucky Governor talked about his view on gun-control he said “you can’t regulate evil” as a response to the school shooting that happened in Kentucky which was days before the school shooting in Parkland, during a talk with news reporters on the subject he briefly talked about how guns are not the issue, he said we as a culture need to change the way we look at each other as people and reshape the way we look at death and violence in different ways and try to and change how much people view death whether it is on a movie, TV show, a video game , or something we see on social media every day because we promote violence that when a fight or any sort of violent act happens people would rather pull out their phone and record than call the police and try to interfere with the activity that’s going

Actually, guns should be controlled because of mass shooting. Some people might forgets what happened in some cities in the United States related to weapons. A recent event is the tragedy when a man killed nine people during a prayer meeting in the African American church in Charleston. He committed the deadliest attack on a place of worship in the United States in 24 years (Horwitz, du Lac, Bever and Costa, 2015). Furthermore, in Connecticut, there was a sad tragedy when a guy shot 20 children and other people at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Before he committed this horrible atrocity, he killed his mother who had firearms in her home. That illustrate having a guns at home is harmful even just for hunting (Stoller, 2013).

Gun control, or the lack thereof, causes a really big discussion. On one side you have the people that say “no guns!” and people that hunt for game and whatnot. There is, and in my opinion, always going to be a big disagreement on gun control. It is that way because there are lots of people that have different opinions.

Security remains critical and critical to peaceful coexisting amongst the people of a specific community. Security agencies ensure that everything runs typically as peace can engage in various activities in the different walks of life without fear or intimidation of any kind. The government upholds and remains responsible for the security of its people. This lead to the establishment of relevant law enforcement agencies such as security forces for example police unit. However, some of the governments are unable to provide the security needs to all the citizens hence some of the citizens acquire gun licensing to safeguard their interests. As gun control debate remains very controversial given the different perceptions, the paper seeks addresses the argument in support and against the gun control in the United States.