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Oliver Huang
Dr. Flanagan, Ryan P
Principles of English Gun Control : Need Should
24 October 2017
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Xiangxi Liu claims in his essay “Gun Control NO!” published on Zhihu website in
2016 that there is no need for government in America to achieve gun control thoroughly. He
emphasizes that Americans need guns as protection in case because of inadequate police
distributing over America. “If the nearest police station is 45-minutes-ride away your home,
what can you do without guns when some bad guy is trying to break into your house” He
said, “Call 911 Or just call for an ambulance.” He offers a story of his friend who was attacked
at home without guns and his own experience as a gun-taking agent for federation as an
illustration. It’s understandable to believe Xiangxi argued as above basing on his desire to
make response to questioners in the website. Besides, considering his job as gun-taking
agent for government, it can be assumed that he wanted to express his own ideas about gun
control which he thinks are clear enough to help insight this issue.
In “The NRA thinks you're stupid” (2017) published on CNN, Michael A. Nutter argues
that National Rifle Association(NRA) has no sincerity to take action on gun control. He points
out that the leaders in NRA chose political distraction instead of real gun safety reform
because of the great benefits from guns.
According to Michael, the attitude of NRA is not
satisfactory because “It is an amazing display of disingenuous and cynical political sleight of
hand that, the NRA grudgingly agrees that some regulation of these devices is OK.”
To
support his argument, the author quotes what NRA said to its supporters “it is OK to support
‘some regulation’ of bump stocks”, and also offers questions both straight and emotional to
challenge
NRA’s motivation and sincerity. As far as Michael’s profession is concerned, a
reporter for CNN, it can be assumed that his argument is not only about his thoughts but to
gain greater amount of readers as well.
In a 2015 article published in Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, Wolfgang
Stroebe insists that gun prevalence is positively related to homicide rates. The argument
outlines that there is no evidence for a protective effect of gun ownership and contrarily for the unsafe aspect. As what Stroebe suggests in his article, although guns are not a primary
determinant for homicide, their efficacy as murder instruments just makes it easier.
The
author shows a horrible mass-shooting event first following graph made of data about US
household gun ownership rate and homicide rate, which are functioned as an illustration.
Then a few other firearm-related deaths related gun-ownership are provided to further
explain the similar influence gun prevalence has.
Considering Stroebe’s identity as the
emeritus professor of social psychology at Utrecht University and a senior researcher, who
has gain reputations, it’s reliant to believe he writes this article to make contributions to the
field Social Psychology which he devoted decades to studying.
In assay “Unpacking Heat: Dueling Identities and Complex Views on Gun Control
among Rural Police” published in Rural Sociology, Rachael A. Woldoff, Robert C. Litchfield
and Angela Sycafoose Matthews argue that officers’ view about gun control varies as their
multiple identities change in the life, such as police trying to control dangerous situations
with guns they encounter and citizens who desire guns as self-protection. “Officers
symbolically rejected the concept of gun control and instead supported individuals’ gun
rights while most of them distanced themselves from gun-related aspects of rural identity”,
the authors say. However, authors also point out that when it comes to on-the-job
experiences, most of them shows concern about bad influence gun-ownership has on
everyday life and also desire to control it.
This article is mostly basing on an opinion research
about rural police’s attitude to gun control, which covered 200 towns in rural areas. Also, the
testimonies of incumbent police make the argument convincing. Like what the authors write
in the article, they want to make supplementary contributions about what views rural
officers possess on gun control, which is understandable to believe on account of their
professions including scholars and officer from FBI. And there is possibility that they want to
gain reputations for higher positions in career.
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For the first article: 1) Unlike most people in China, Liu contradicts gun control in