Gun Violence Speech Analysis

1412 Words3 Pages

“This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.” This is one Peace Pilgrim said before. Almost everyone, not only in America but also in all around the world hoping peace. Barack Obama who is 44th the Democratic Party of the United States’ president. He making a speech: On Reducing Gun Violence and Making Our Communities Safer. And argues that in order to solve gun violence and making communities safer, reducing gun is the necessary solution should be actualized in America. Thus, Obama using recently event and fact leads to his argument, then using logical facts and statistic data make his argument convinced. Besides, using the sorrowful event of gun violence make the readers or listeners …show more content…

As we all know, this speech’s orator, Barack Obama, the president of America. Who have important contribute in the field of medical care, education, immigration and so on, he also gains Noble Peace Prize in 2009. Obama absolutely has enough duty caring and the appeal was reduced gun violence to making communities safer. As the president, there is no doubt that Obama has strong willingness hoping the people, the communities, and the country becoming safe. Obama uses strong appeals to logs, using enough his own experience of why and how could he manage gun and he also uses other famous people’s opinion to helping support his idea. And what he did about reducing gun is also not about the voting or politics, is for protecting people and country’s safe. Just like he said that “I’m not on the ballot again. I’m not looking to score some points. I think we can disagree without impugning other people’s motives or without being disagreeable. We don’t need to be talking past one another (8).” All he speaks in the speech are motivate reducing gun violence to protect people and country’s safe. Moreover, one policy the Affordable Care Act- also known as Obamacare is the policy Obama published. From the policy, he realized more about people’s pain. As the beginning of the speech, he is known how medical team busy with rescues people’s life because every single year thousands of people are under pain and …show more content…

Obama using many well-known events about gun violence, and talking about the results of these events, like gun violence given pain not only for people who hurt or died by gun violence but also make their family, friends sorrowfully which could make people feel this thing have just happened in the normal people 's daily life. He citing like “Care enough about a little boy like Daniel to come together and take common-sense steps to save lives and protect more of our children. (10)”, here he tries to appeal people’s care about gun violence because gun violence even hurts children the most innocent kids. And then he also citing that “those rights were stripped from college students in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine, and from first-graders in Newtown. And from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. (41)”, “it happens on the streets of Chicago every day. (41)” These facts he using is explaining that gun violence is not far from normal people’s life, it will happen everywhere or everyone even the children, students and older may suffer the violence. These examples are the most direct way shown how dangerous the gun violence are and could lead people into sad emotion easily. Moreover, at last few paragraphs Obama citing a gun violence event happened recently in his speech

Open Document