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Week 4 Discussion
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Week 4 Discussion
Owing to an increase in the cases of gun violence, many people are concerned about this issue. In recent years, in the U.S., there were several cases where innocent children and adults were subjected to gun violence. In the article published in the New York Times, the author, Nicholas also highlighted that guns do not kill people and in fact, people kill people (Kristof, 2019). The author also discussed that as we regulate cars by instituting evidence-based practices, so it is necessary to make laws regarding gun usage and held people accountable for using guns as a source of violence.
In the second article, the author Dennis Barron argued that it is necessary to ban the English language so that people can speak their mother tongue confidently (Baron, 2019). According to the author, making the English language an official language will create several problems for the people who are unable to speak the English language. So people should ban the English language as it will prevent the divisiveness that prevails in America.
While comparing both texts, one thing that is common among the two is the authors' own opinions. The authors just explained their perspectives regarding the topic rather than supporting their claims with evidence gathered from multiple sources. Although in the article “Our Blind Spot about Guns” the author did mention some statistical facts and discussed about the Second Amendment in the U.S. constitution to support his claim, but the references were missing. So it is not clear whether the statistics were authentic or not. In contrast, in the article “Don’t make English official, ban it instead”, the author only presented his perspective (Baron, 2019). Typically, the authors use appeal to reason trust and emotion to persuade readers but in both the above mentioned texts, the techniques appeal to trust and authority were missing as there were no references to the claims. However, both the authors successfully used appeal to emotion and reason to persuade readers. For instance, the author Nicholas in his article mentioned that, “Cars kill people, too, so why not ban cars? Why are you so hypocritical as to try to take away guns from law-abiding people when you don’t seize cars.” (Kristof, 2019). This argument is the perfect example of reasoning and appeal to emotion as it is true that cars also cause accidents, however, they are not banned by the government.
References
Baron, D. (2019). The Web of Language. Retrieved 16 November 2019, from https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/130039
Kristof, N. (2019). Opinion | Our Blind Spot About Guns. Retrieved 16 November 2019, from https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/opinion/nicholas-kristof-our-blind-spot-about-guns.html
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