Support for Gun Control and Reducing Violence in America. Essay Graded A

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Citizen Student: Legislate This! We’ve been exploring events that shape our lives, organizations that fight injustice, and what it means to be an advocate. For your major project this term, you’l... l prepare and deliver a 5-7 min persuasive speech in support or opposition to a piece of legislation of your choosing. Any topic is fair game as long as it is a current issue before any state legislature or the United States Congress. Remember to consider the larger conversation around this issue. Who is arguing what? Where do you stand in relation to these other arguments? In addition, you are asked to include a minimum of 3 sources to support your arguments. One source must originate from a peer reviewed academic journal. Remember that 3 sources is a basement for your research burden, not a ceiling. Stay organized: Remember that speechmaking requires different strategies at times than writing requires. In your introduction, capture the audience’s attention; briefly map out the points you’ll discuss in the body of your speech. In the body, you will need to effectively define and contextualize the topic; sustain audience interest and inform us about the topic itself. In the conclusion, you will remind the audience where we’ve been. Take advantage of the final moments of your speech: it is a moment of power; leave us with something that resonates. As always, you will want to ensure that your topic is narrow enough that you can sufficiently inform us on the topic in the 5-7 minute time allotted. Each claim you make must be supported by evidence: research, personal experience, expert testimony, etc. Consider where your claim stands in relation to the claims of others. Are you responding to a naysayer? Are you agreeing with another claim, but with a difference? All evidence must be cited orally, cited on your preparation outline and on the Works Cited page. Failure to appropriately cite sources in your speech constitutes plagiarism. Build a balanced and engaging presentation by incorporating all of the rhetorical appeals and taking into consideration the needs of your audience. This speech will serve as a template for your final 7-9 page essay. Guidelines for Essay Length: 7-9 pages. Style/Format: This, as all essays in Discourse, will be formatted according to MLA (Modern Language Association) guidelines for scholarship in the humanities: • 12 point, Times New Roman font, double-spaced. • 1-inch margins top, bottom, and sides. • Although no cover page is needed, you should include your name, my name, the course number/title, and date at the upper left-hand corner of the manuscript. References: References will utilize quotation or paraphrasing, and they will include in-text citations (the author's last name and page number in parentheses; however, use only the page number if the author's last name is mentioned in the text leading up to the quote or if the previous in-text citation included the name of the same author). Works Cited: Your essay will include a Works Cited page in MLA format. Titles: The title is the first thing a reader encounters—make it descriptive, reveal the thesis and capture the audience’s attention. Do not format your title with quotation marks, boldface, underlining or italics. Quotation marks or underlining are only appropriate if the title borrows words from another source. Support for Gun Control and Reducing Gun Violence in America The Outline: A. Introduction Statistics show that as many as 30, 000 people lose their live everyday due to gun violence and the related injuries and wounds in the United States. It is arguably among the number one causes of premature deaths in the country among the young people, which, for a nation of the immense wealth of knowledge, democracy and capital, the numbers are way too high, even exceeding some mildly war torn areas. The paper sets to support the need for gun control for the purpose of reducing the unfortunate deaths. 1. Firearms and the occurrence of violent deaths (the impact) Provides a look into the firearms’ spread and the burden of violent deaths in the United States that include homicides, suicide, and accidental deaths from guns. The occurrences are analyzed and compared to other high income nations using studies informing on fire arm ownership and prevalence of the deadly incidents. 2. The pro-gun reasoning/ideology Americans cherish individualism and equality, which is definitive among the reasons for attachment to guns. 3. Reasoning for the current condition in prohibiting possession of fire arms There are individuals that the law prohibits from owning guns given the information and data about them. The justifications also rely on the risk perpetration or victimization of violent crimes especially at young age. 4. Prohibition and restrictions on firearm ownership need to be broadened. Exclusion criteria should be harmonized between states to know who deserves and can handle the ownership of a gun. This should include criminals, drug abusers, mentally-ill, any one considered immature such as below 21 years, passing a deeper background check, and the regulation of gun retailers and oversight and restrictions to high risk groups. 5. More insight and review on the right-to-carry laws This is a law allowing persons that cannot legally own arms to carry them in concealed places in public after acquiring a permit in some states. Others do not require the permit as long as the individual is law abiding. This creates problems by increasing violent tendencies. 6. Regulation on the design of guns This is in relation to capacity of the rounds of ammunition a gun can expel at a time. High performance guns have resulted to more deaths in the form of mass shootings capability. 7. Call for the immense and existing public support From the Gallop polls, many people’s attitude on gun regulating has skewed facts due to misinformation on the current laws, the need for improvement towards less or more strictness. B. The conclusion A review of the topic and the raised points in the paper, and providing a call to action entailing the need for collective efforts and laws that work towards reducing unnecessary deaths from guns. Works Cited Ashcroft, John . "Reducing Gun Violence." The Bostn's Gun project's Operation Ceasefire (2001): 1-77. Article. 16 November 2016. <https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/188741.pdf>. Firman, John, et al. "reducing Gun Violence in our Communities." A Leadership Guide for Law Enforcement on Effective Strategies and Programs (2011): 1-32. Article. 16 November 2016. <http://www.theiacp.org/portals/0/pdfs/gunviolencereductionguide2011.pdf>. Kahan, Dan M. "Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection." Judgement and Decision Making 8 (2013): 1-18. Artcile. 16 November 2016. <http://journal.sjdm.org/13/13313/jdm13313.pdf>. Kopel, David B. . "THE IDEOLOGY OF GUN OWNERSHIP AND GUN CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES." Independence Institute (1995): 1-18. Article. 16 November 2016. <http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/60dk-i.pdf>. Ludwig, Jens and Philip J Cook . "The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence: Evidence from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data." The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2001): 1-20. Article. 11 November 2016. <http://home.uchicago.edu/ludwigj/papers/RU-CookLudwig-RedGunContinEval.pdf>. National Urban League. "Strategies for Reducing Gun Violence in American Cities." Mayors against Illegal Guns (2016): 1-72. Article. 16 November 2016. <http://everytownresearch.org/documents/2016/06/strategies-reducing-gun-violence-american-cities.pdf>. Office of the Congress Woman Robin L. Kelly. "OFFICE of CONGRESSWOMAN ROBIN L. KELLY." Washington, DC 20515 (2014): 1-66. Article. 16 Novemebr 2016. <https://robinkelly.house.gov/sites/robinkelly.house.gov/files/wysiwyg_uploaded/KellyReport_1.pdf>. Webster, Daniel W., et al. "SMART Approaches to Reducing Gun Violence." Smart Policing Initiative Spotlight on Evidence-Based Strategies and Impacts (2014): 1-36. Article. 11 November 2016. <http://www.smartpolicinginitiative.com/sites/all/files/SPI%20Gun%20Violence%20Spotlight%20FINAL.pdf>. [Show More]

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