This text
argues that roughening the population’s access to guns will not reduce the
seemingly high number of firearms related deaths that got up to 33,636 in 2013
according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is stated that
“passing more gun control laws” won’t solve this problem well I strongly
disagree. In the US on average 88.9 people over 100 have guns; this is
undoubtedly an astonishing ratio, I believe since a lot posses guns that they
will more likely tend to violence to resolve their problems: this explains the
elevated number of mass shootings occurring in the country for this reason the
government should limit the access to guns to a strict minimum, since
inevitably the more guns laying around the more hazardous the situation
becomes. Next the text claims the possession on guns by law-abiding residents
helps reduce the number of deaths in an attack by “apprehending the shooter”
well you wouldn’t need that if in the first place this mentally unstable person
wasn’t able to procure himself a firearm. On another note, this article showed
that “non-gun related homicides in the US is three times higher than in
England” thus proving Americans are more violent but this is clearly reason
enough to make sure they don’t get armed; the author wanting to prove a point
ended up contradicting his own principal claim.
Now looking at the text in an
alternative way we can see that it shapes some logical arguments. There is no
way of “extinguishing” this gun supply since they will always find a way to
manage the illegal selling of weapons that will be added a great list of
illegally vended merchandise. Also it is impossible to “confiscate” all guns
owned and if not prevent people from entering guns to a “gun-free” environment for
example the high school mentioned where a shooting went down was banning the
entry of weaponries. Besides we can all approve that “dangerous people” will
eternally find a manner to acquire lethal weapons by means of “stealing or
borrowing” as it is declared and we need to make an effort to deal with these
“unstable personalities”. And finally we can see the logic one of his key
arguments about gun owning individuals who will seek to stop an assailant since
the fact of carrying a gun will make them more confident in themselves.
Work cited
Wilson,
James Q. “Gun Control Isn’t the Answer.” LATimes.com. Los Angeles
Times, 20 Apr 2007. Web. 13 July 2014.
moodle
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