Gun Debate: Where Is The Middle Ground
Analysis of “Gun Debate: Where is the Middle Ground?”
In response to an article titled (Gun Debate: Where Is the Middle Ground?) written by Mallory Simon, writer and senior producer of online presentations for the Cable News Network (CNN) on January 31, 2013, the argument can be presented that “Guns don’t kill people, people do.” The article highlighted the common topic of gun control. In that phrase alone it is proposed that somehow guns have a mind of their own and can somehow control themselves. The author presents the proposal that somehow there may be a common ground in maintaining the use and sanction of guns in our country by creating a medium of strict public policy in the form of background checks and security. It is with strong supported evidence that an attempt will be made to argue that the power to control the illegal, malicious and careless use of guns is to limit the power of people to obtain them with a …show more content…
The first of the mass shootings was the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin, on August 5, 2012 that left six people dead, many wounded, and traumatized a community. The second of the shootings took place only four months later on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School where 20 children aged between 6 and 7 years old along with six school staff officials were shot and killed. Mallory takes the stance that there must be a common middle ground between the issuance of guns and the regulation and policy of who should be allowed to obtain them. He tries to support his position of policing policy of gun control by quoting expert opinions representing two different sides of the issue of gun control yet they both represent the need for a greater oversite of policy governing the need for background checks but also the broken systems and expense of such a resource was of great
In response to an article titled (Gun Debate: Where Is the Middle Ground?) written by Mallory Simon, writer and senior producer of online presentations for the Cable News Network (CNN) on January 31, 2013, the argument can be presented that “Guns don’t kill people, people do.” The article highlighted the common topic of gun control. In that phrase alone it is proposed that somehow guns have a mind of their own and can somehow control themselves. The author presents the proposal that somehow there may be a common ground in maintaining the use and sanction of guns in our country by creating a medium of strict public policy in the form of background checks and security. It is with strong supported evidence that an attempt will be made to argue that the power to control the illegal, malicious and careless use of guns is to limit the power of people to obtain them with a …show more content…
The first of the mass shootings was the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin, on August 5, 2012 that left six people dead, many wounded, and traumatized a community. The second of the shootings took place only four months later on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School where 20 children aged between 6 and 7 years old along with six school staff officials were shot and killed. Mallory takes the stance that there must be a common middle ground between the issuance of guns and the regulation and policy of who should be allowed to obtain them. He tries to support his position of policing policy of gun control by quoting expert opinions representing two different sides of the issue of gun control yet they both represent the need for a greater oversite of policy governing the need for background checks but also the broken systems and expense of such a resource was of great