Gun Control Exercise
Writing Exercise The article that I selected is titled "Gun control is not the answer". The issue of the article is that taking away guns will not stop shooting in the United States of America; therefore, citizens should continue to have guns. The article should be viewed with skepticism because the author of the article is biased and uses fallacy tactics to try to persuade his the audience to agree with him because he's a gun owner and the creator of a gun blog post. He supports the second amendment the right to bear arms, he doesn't agree with gun control. The passage that I selected doesn't support the author's position because it doesn't focus on gun control in America. The article is all over the place it has several rhetoric devices
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He utilized the French terrorist attack as a way to scare the readers and again put them in rage over this topic. I also noticed that he strategically placed this at the end of his article to leave the readers with panic and fear. Even though there isn't a high probability of getting killed in a terrorist attack, in the United States. The author also uses rationalizing as a tactic to make people feel as though everything is ok. He said that there is no weapon that could stop the killing in Colorado and San Bernardino. By the author stating this it allow the reader to feel like it was unpreventable thus changing their views about gun control. Red Herring was also used in the middle of the article in relation to how long to lock up criminals. Last but not least line drawing was used to state that gun control doesn't work and civilians should keep their guns. In conclusion, the author article doesn't support his claim. After carefully analyzing the article the author diverted the topic and just criticized the government for their actions. Thus making the article irrelevant to his claim. He focused more on the topic of mass shooting are unpreventable rather than why gun control shouldn't be implemented. The author is clearly abusing his power of involvement in the media to persuade people to agree with
He utilized the French terrorist attack as a way to scare the readers and again put them in rage over this topic. I also noticed that he strategically placed this at the end of his article to leave the readers with panic and fear. Even though there isn't a high probability of getting killed in a terrorist attack, in the United States. The author also uses rationalizing as a tactic to make people feel as though everything is ok. He said that there is no weapon that could stop the killing in Colorado and San Bernardino. By the author stating this it allow the reader to feel like it was unpreventable thus changing their views about gun control. Red Herring was also used in the middle of the article in relation to how long to lock up criminals. Last but not least line drawing was used to state that gun control doesn't work and civilians should keep their guns. In conclusion, the author article doesn't support his claim. After carefully analyzing the article the author diverted the topic and just criticized the government for their actions. Thus making the article irrelevant to his claim. He focused more on the topic of mass shooting are unpreventable rather than why gun control shouldn't be implemented. The author is clearly abusing his power of involvement in the media to persuade people to agree with