Gun Control Regulations

Summary:
In the article "End the Gun Epidemic in America", published by The New York Times, the author proclaims how Americas elected leaders are taking no further step to regulate gun control. It has now became easier to buy a gun with no restrictions. The author announces to the audience to take the step to regulate, giving up their weapons is the first step to help create a safer environment.

Analysis: Since our "leaders" are profiting from the purchase of weapons, no further restrictions made to stop a purchase that puts thousands at risk. The author recalls that we hear news about mass shootings frequently. Sure our government pays their respects of the victims who suffered, but does not do further more. Gun control can easily reduce the mass shootings. To connect his proclaim, the author connects to our world now. We have elections coming in, but there seems to be no one that mentions the act of gun regulation. It won't matter who gets elected because the fear of getting killed by someone who has a weapon is still there. There are other counties like France, England, and Norway that are trying to address the act to start gun control, but the US remains doing nothing. The author then blames republicans for advocating gun markets and claims that instead of talking about the spread of firearms, we should talk about the spread of gun markets because the firearms come from gun markets.To end the article, the author then suggests another idea on. The author reaches a message to those who do own a fire arm/weapon, should be considerate and eliminate them.


The Editorial Board."End the Gun Epidemic."The New York Times,(1920).  The optional pages. web. December 8,2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/opinion/end-the-gun-epidemic-in-america.html

Argument Essay

Our world today no longer lives in a world of simplicity due to our advanced mechanization.. People no longer focus on self-sufficiency, and focus on living the life of luxury. People have grown in a world where they seek competition with each other,rather than helping their neighbor out. In “Where I lived and what I lived for” Thoreau addresses his values of living a life of simplicity by living a life alone in the woods, free from everyone else. By advocating the life Thoreau argues, our world would promote a life full of leisure and free from obligations. No rush, no competition,no materialism, just a free flowing life.

Before technology boomed in the 1920’s, people communicated simply by talking to each other. There was no competition to have the best life. Now, it seems as if people rush into buying the best of the best to promote an image of superiority. Thoreau's rhetorical question, “why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?” indicates that people are not taking the time to acknowledge the essence of life and rushing into a life of luxury.

On the other hand, individuals who reject Thoreau’s ideal of simplicity, argue that mechanization is what will help us simplify our lives. Machinery has helped by doing the job for us. So because machinery does the job, people have nothing to worry about, which leads to a free life. But little do they know that because people depend too much on the machinery and become distracted from each other. Thoreau states “let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature”, after he analyzed a life of leisure. People do not necessary need the machinery, they are capable of doing the job themselves. Machinery holds back knowledge, people need to nourish.

Gun Control Reducing Suicide

alal al-khatib wrote an article about the study of owning a gun increasing the number of suicide, the article goes by the name "Would Gun Control Reduce Suicides?"(February 27,2013); Discovery News. The writer reports the rates on how individuals who posses a gun will most likely harm themselves with that gun, giving the individual a higher chance of suicide. The sense of owning a gun already, gives the user an easy access to kill and harm.

Analysis; The author first introduces the fact that owning a gun  has resulted in high mass shootings and death rates. In order to support his statement, the author then adds statistics to show the amount of  gun violence in the previous year. The entire article consist of statistics to prove to the audience the harm guns have to offer. Then, the author portrays the methods of how some individuals "suicide" themselves, giving the reader a better understanding of how this can be done. Individuals who own a gun, have a gun at home, or have bought a gun, is mentioned and how these individuals are just simply exposed to a gun, they are immediately in danger in using the weapon on themselves; the author does this to reach to an audience that can relate to gun violence, and owning a gun. He aims to provide a message on the dangers of guns and to reach out to the media the message of improving Gun control. To do this, he mention's that when physiological ill veterans come back, they tend to end their lives easily with a gun because they posses one. Finally, he ends the article with a power quote; "Just slowing down gun access by a few minutes may be enough to stop the impulse.", to end his claim on how to reduce gun violence.