Dana Loesch: A Summary

Newman adds her feelings towards guns in her book Rampage: the Social Roots of School Shooting. She says, “Clearly a school shooting cannot occur unless a youth can attain unsupervised access to a weapon(Rampage, 231).” Shannon Watts, founder of the organization Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, goes more into the topic by saying school shootings are getting so high that it is a "gun epidemic out of control(Watts).” She goes on about her opinions for guns accessibility to stricken and says “It is never an accident when a child gets an adult's gun(Rampage, 231).” She continues by saying, "It is always criminal negligence on the part of the adult who owns the gun(Rampage, 231)" Enforcing stricter background checks, laws against high-capacity magazines and letting people know easy ways to lock and store guns out of children’s reach would decrease shootings especially in

Amardeep Kaleka, who was affected by gun violence by losing his father at a church shooting made a statement at CNN,s Guns Under Fire: An AC360° Town Hall Special, “After meeting with so many senators, so many gun proponents and gun control advocates, it seems like they’re recycling the same jargon all the time. So I was just hoping, let’s get to the common ground” (quoted in Simon 46). The authors claim is that there are too many debates going on and that the people need to start coming up with solutions instead of just arguing. Solutions such as creating better background checks before one is able to purchase a

Gun control in the U.S has been a highly talked about topic the past couple of years. Through the development of technology and social media; many people across the country have been more involved in voicing their opinions about this issue. America is known as the land of the free, many people take pride in being able to bare arms. However, this right has been abused by not only civilians, but law enforcement as well. The United States has the 31st highest rate of gun violence in the world and it is not decreasing anytime soon. The phrase “America's largest mass shooting” has been reassigned to numerous occurrences that have taken place over the past decade. It is apparent that through these tragedies it is time for a serious change, innocent lives are being lost for no reason.

ESSENCE OF THE STORY: Back in 2012 a massacre took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Proceeding the shooting, Gary Will tried to make sense of the tragedy and wrote an essay called “Our Moloch”. In the essay Wills emotionally explains how “The gun is our Moloch.” This saying is a reference to an ancient God who used to be worshipped for sacrificing children. Will is trying to explain how the gun is worshipped and the lack of laws restricting gun rights come at the expense of children. Now its five years later and on October 1st 59 people were killed in a Las Vegas by the Moloch. This most recent shooting has sparked the same debate gun laws it did five years ago. Though, since Sandy Hook, the debate has become more intense because the

Everyday, the biased news media reports another mass shooting. The media reports the cases of “police brutality” and the media reports the tragic accidents. The media doesn’t report the research by David Burnett and Clayton Cramer who track incidents of defensive gun use. The stories include women fighting off would be rapists and senior citizens protecting themselves from robbers. They are stories that prevent violent crimes from occurring, for they are stories that save lives.

Her world came to a crash the day she was shot, point-blank, in front of a grocery store. With all of this gun violence going on recently the Senate has been flooded with gun-control legislation. Some of it is radical but the majority of the laws are no-brainers, like the background check law struck down by the senate earlier in the congressional session. The law required that background checks be given before the purchase of a firearm, and was supported by “Ninety per cent of Americans,” and “eighty-five per cent of gun owners” (Talbot, 2014). Interest groups like the NRA are scaring our legislators into making decisions that do not reflect the wishes of the population as a whole.

Next, I went to an article by Chuck Baldwin, an American Politician, who disagreed with gun control laws: “Here we go again. We have another mass shooting at yet another “gun free” zone. Not only was the location a “gun free zone, it was located inside the nation’s capital, which has some of the strictest gun-control laws in the entire country,” Stated Chuck Baldwin, (Baldwin para. 1).

On June 26th 2015, nine days after the Charleston Church Shooting that took away the precious lives of nine African-Americans, the United States president Barack Obama gave an incredible remark for pastor Clementa Pinckney that moved the heart of thousands and provoked the controversial conversation of gun violence across the nation. The success of the remark is incalculable, and what drove such success was Obama’s very ability to utilize rhetoric to attack and to build connections. Yet, throughout Obama’s speeches,

Kevin McCullough’s article, “When Women Shoot Up Planned Parenthood“ (2015) argues in defense of gun ownership when it is allegedly assaulted by the president and the media. McCullough supports his belief his personal feelings and background as a conservative Republican who supports gun ownership. He hopes to berate his opponents in order to reaffirm the belief that gun ownership must be more commonly accepted and that mentally unstable individuals should not have access to them. The columnist speaks in a sarcastic, condescending tone, which supports that he is ideally speaking to people with similar conservative beliefs that wish to push their gun ownership agenda. In this article, McCullough takes a tragic incidence in the history of Planned

From 2014 to October 2017, there have been 213,787 gun related incidents. Nearly 54,000 of those incidents have resulted in death. In my lifetime alone, I’ve experienced 42 mass shootings resulting in 414 deaths and 851 injuries. Although the location and number of victims changed, I still felt the same mixture of sadness and anger wash over me every time I heard about a shooting. Another constant through the years was the phrase “worst mass shooting in American history”. Living through the different iterations of mass shootings negatively shaped my views on the state of gun control. Coming from a

Emma Gonzalez, student of Stoneman Douglas High School has recently received national attention as a direct result of her speech advocating gun control after the shootings on February 14, 2018. Within her speech Gonzalez successfully uses ethos, pathos, and logos to allow all listeners to understand the severity of the shooting and how it not only impacts Stoneman Douglas, but also the country as a whole. Early on in her speech, Gonzalez ensures that she establishes herself to the audience as just a student in order to strengthen her argument as a whole. One of Gonzalez key points mentioned early on in the speech was the fact she knew the shooter and was not surprised that of all people he shot up the school, because she believed he had psychological issues. As a result Gonzalez now makes the listeners wonder how someone who is merely 17 years old is capable of realizing the shooter had psychological issues prior to any diagnosis and that he was capable of such harm, but when any sign of it came up it was swept under the rug and ignored by everyone else.

This clip about dana Gilmore does not affect me. but to most of the people it does why because she is the telling us that she loved this man and thought she was going to Mary him and gave him a home but at the end he just told her that she was just a friend. the message that the clip is conveyed is to not stick to just that person because you don even know if you will be with them the rest of your life. But she did say she who’d do it all over again but just not with his friend it would be with her

La Pierre is CEO of the National Rifle Association and he made an announcement about the Sandy Hook shooting. On YouTube I watched the announcement and he blamed the national media. The national media glorified the killer by giving so much attention and because of this there will be copycat killer wanting the same

Throughout history, when it comes to a national crisis, many leaders and politicians tend to advance towards what the people want to hear. In order to gain their audience’s support, most political leaders and public speakers use the practice of demagoguery to have useful influence held towards their argument. In Patricia Roberts-Miller’s article “Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric,” analyzes what demagoguery is and how it affects the audience. Speakers or authoritative figures that engage with demagoguery use strategies such as scapegoating and polarization in order to establish a separation between in-groups and out-groups; in-groups tend to form hateful discrimination on out-groups and define them with negative features. An example of demagoguery that Roberts-Miller uses is in Adolf Hitler’s speech about how he wanted German people to change their views and beliefs on the Jewish. Her article however, also consists of several fallacies and may seem somewhat unethical. Throughout Wayne LaPierre’s speech on the Newtown Tragedy in 2012, there is usage of what Roberts-Miller claims to be demagoguery. Wayne LaPierre is the Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA). After the shooting that occurred at Sandy Hook elementary, LaPierre expresses his sympathy for the families of the loss and he then gathers the attention of parents who may be uneasy about their children’s safety at school. Throughout

Michael Moore’s flawed 2002 expository documentary Bowling for Columbine is ineffective in its goals to open Americas eyes to its very serious gun violence problem. Michael Moore sets out to uncover why the United States can’t seem to end its devastating and reoccurring mass shootings, by using deception as its primary tool of persuasion and effect, Moore attempts to vilify pro-gun activists. The humorous documentary frequently highpoints controversial decisions and actions made by the then President of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston. Bowling also raises issues such as the ease of buying pointless high powered assault weapons just about anywhere, and American media’s film first ask later attitude towards gun crimes and social and racial issues. Americans are left even more paranoid and hostile than ever before, something the documentary should have set out to end.