Summary Of Gun Control By Sarah Thompson

In 1997 Sarah Thompson, a retired physician, informed adults and families on the effects of gun control in American Gun Review. She believes it is not a good idea to enforce laws that restrict gun control and everyone should be able to carry a gun, as long as we use it carefully. In her article, Thompson uses real life examples of crimes such as murders, rapes, and theft to support her view on gun control and as of result of eliminating these restrictions, there would be a decline on criminal rates. However, her article is not fully effective as she fails to include people’s views that do not approve of guns; had an unbalance use of ethos, pathos, and logos in addition to not citing her arguments.

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Her ideas are well thought out, but she includes no backing. For example, in the text it says “At the same time misuse of legally concealed weapons and accidental handgun deaths from concealed weapons are almost non-existent (Thompson 545).” She is not specific of what “almost non-existent” means. For all we know she could be manipulating her findings to make it look as if there are no misuse of concealed weapons thus making it seem as a part of her side, in the argument. In addition, there are instances where she says there is a need for “further studies”. This creates a sense that the author is lacking information, which defeats the purpose of adding some of the information she included in her article. As a result, this lowers her credibility, which is important to have because it is the first thing people look at when reading an argumentative writing. To improve the issue she could be more careful on what evidence she is stating and what statements need evidence so that her credibility is not questioned nor

One of the arguments that she stated that were effective was when she said, “This unequivocally supports the wisdom of our Founding Fathers who guaranteed that our right to keep and bear arms “shall not be infringed(Thompson 542).””By stating this, it makes people who are against guns think about their rights and how we, as Americans, have the right to possess weapons. People might not believe in other people owning guns, but our Amendment gives us the right to bear arms. A lot was sacrificed to have this right and to have it be ignored and not followed makes the amendment, worthless. Another exemplary claim made by the author was when she stated, “For example, the murder rate in very large cities drops by 12 percent when CCW is passed…(Thompson 543)” This shows the greatest benefit of having a concealed weapons. Having this as the warrant, the author has highly persuaded people to want to consider her side of gun control. It goes to show as that there is actually something good in concealed weapon and it should not be considered bad if you are carrying a