High Capacity Magazine Persuasive Speech Outline

Name: Bernard Toth
Introduction (14 points total)
Attention getter (_/5): How many bullets do you think a high capacity magazine holds? …….. 11 round but they can go all the way up to 20 in hand guns and 45 in rifles
Importance statement (_/2): This is important because lowering the magazine size will prevent the amount of people being shot at in a shooting since there will not be as many bullets in the magazine.
Credibility statement (_/2): I researched this topic over a couple days using various scholarly sources
Preview (_/2): I am going to talk about why high capacity magazines should be illegal and how we can put a ban on them and then what it would look like with a ban on the high capacity magazines.
Thesis (_/2): High capacity magazines
should be illegal in the US because they provide a easy way to kill many people in a short period of time.
Transition (_/1): Now lets go into the main points on why high capacity magazines should be illegal in the U.S
Body (30 points total)
NEED / PROBLEM (_/2) High capacity magazine need to be illegal in the US
Sub-point 1(_/3) High capacity magazines provide the shooter with the ability to carry many bullets without having to constantly reload his firearm.
Sub-point 2(_/3) If the shooter can easily shoot people with a lot of bullets more people can die and the time that he isn’t spent reloading will be spent shooting since he has a high capacity magazine
Transition (_/2) Now lets talk a little bit about the solutions that can be done.
SATISFCATION (_/2) A simple bill or law can be passed by congress that would put into effect a nationwide ban on high capacity magazines.
Sub-point 1 (_/3) Within the bill there can be an option to register high capacity magazines for the people that already own them. So that their money will not be wasted. There can also be a refund by the government that they will give you the money for the high capacity magazine so that they can take it away from the owner.
Sub-point 2 (_/3) Then all high capacity magazines need to be removed from firearm stores and need to be destroyed or disposed
of.
Transition (_/2) Now lets take a look at what the visualization would look like.
VISUALIZATION (_/2) Once high capacity magazines are banned.
Sub-point 1(_/3) Shooting numbers should go down exponentially because the shooters will not as many bullets in their magazines.
Sub-point 2 (_/3) On the other hand gun enthusiast will be upset because the size of their magazines have been dramatically decreased and shooting at the range will not be as fun for them.
Transition (_/2) Now lets conclude about why high capacity magazines should be banned.
Conclusion (6 points total)
Restate main points (_/2) High capacity magazines should be illegal because the give the shooter a lot of bullets without a lot of reloads. A bill should be passed by congress to put a nationwide ban on them.
Restate thesis (_/2) High capacity magazines should be illegal in the U.S because they provide a easy way to kill many people in a short period of time.
Specific call to action (_/2) You can email your local congressman to support the ban on high capacity magazines.