Summary Of Taking A Staab At Our Allocation With Guns By Molly Ivins

The civil libertarian writer, Molly Ivins, in her Op-Ed argument, “Taking A Stab At Our Infatuation With Guns” published in 1993 addresses the topic of making United states a gun free country in accordance of the United States Second Amendment to prevent any more unnecessary harm to the Millennium class. Ivins supports her claim by using a homespun diction, analogy imagery, colloquial style and loose, cumulative sentence syntax to create a restatement effect. Examples from the text include a goodwill attitude toward the subject. By setting herself as a civil libertarian it gives the audience a sense of commonly known ground. Ivins tries to make herself seem equal to her audience by also using homespun language to make her audience relate to