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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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