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Face It: Guns Are Here To Stay
Burrus, Trevor. "Face It: Guns Are Here to Stay." New York Daily News 7 Jan. 2013. Rpt. in Guns and Crime. Ed. Noël Merino. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2015. At Issue. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 4 Oct. 2016.
Trevor Burrus is a researcher for the Cato institute's center for constitutional studies. His papers have appeared in journals like Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and the New York Times. He also holds a JD from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law meaning that he knows what he is talking about.

The target audience for this article is mainly adults who are against guns. This is because it was published in the New York Daily News which most of its readers are adults. The article also tells people how guns in America are not going anywhere. Mostly adults will be reading this publication because kids would be disinterested.
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This relates to my research because it talks about alternate solutions to gun control that would end gun violence. This article supports my viewpoint by making claims that i agree with. It answered the question of what would be better than gun

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