Parker Wallace
Donohue, John.
"Ban guns, end shootings? How evidence stacks up." CNN. Cable News
Network, 27 Aug. 2017. Web. 30 Jan. 2017.
The author infers that if guns were banned, or the
second amendment was altered, that mass shootings and gun violence would
decrease. The author uses sources like the NRA and the National Crime Victimization Survey. He obtains a
conclusion that the U.S. should model their gun control laws after other
sovereign states to limit mass shootings.
The author is appealing to government officials and the media. I know
this because he talks about what politicians should do and he is informing the
media of the tragedies occurring in our country. His purpose is to ultimately get
legislatures to change the policy on guns. He does this by showing the positive
effects of limiting gun possession in other countries and the negative effects
of no strict laws in the U.S. He is under some restraints because he is
reporting to the media so he has some sort of government regulation, while it
isn’t much.
The title to the
article does a pretty good job of summing up what I am looking for in an
article, because it is a liberally written article, discussing the dangers of
guns. I will also look at the conservative counterpart of CNN, Fox News, and
use their article to control the bias of my paper.
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