Gun control is a major hot button issue in the United States currently; there are multiple different viewpoints and many different facts supporting those views. In order to support these viewpoints arguers will appeal to a person’s character, emotion, and utilize facts to persuade that person. These aspects are respectively called ethos, logos, and pathos; these three tools of rhetoric are used to support both sides of the gun control debate. All three of these tools use the idea of labeling to explain both sides. Labeling is the idea THAT While ethos, logos, and pathos all discuss different aspects of gun control: within each aspect labeling is used to further the need or absence of gun control.
Ethos within gun control focuses on the mentally …show more content…
Pathos is focused on emotion, and this is seen specifically when looking at home life and what the parents of the home believe. First looking at the belief that Americans have the right to own a gun, according to the academic journal, “Public Opinion about Gun Policies”, most people who focus on this side are “men, conservatives, republicans, and residents of rural areas”. This makes sense because often times men who live in rural areas frequently use guns to hunt and provide food for their family, by taking away their right to own a gun this forces them to find other means of sustenance. This can lead to disastrous outcomes because when men hunt for their family’s food supply that is often because they don’t have the money to buy produce from a store. Essentially, by creating these laws the government is pushing these families into an economic and health struggle. Because these families notice the threat to their health, their emotions become involved persuading them to focus more on this side of the …show more content…
Logos is basic logic, commonly based on facts and science. When supporting gun control with logos, one can simply state the facts of gun control to try to persuade their audience to their side. For example, simply the facts are that gun disasters have become more and more prominent in the news and just in general knowledge, so one could conclude that gun control needs to be pushed because it is becoming more prominent in our country. This encourages the point that we have to push gun control in order to keep our nation safe. Logos focuses on simply the facts, which is often hard to argue with when debating a topic; however, some facts can be warped to help one side when in reality it’s true for
Ethos within gun control focuses on the mentally …show more content…
Pathos is focused on emotion, and this is seen specifically when looking at home life and what the parents of the home believe. First looking at the belief that Americans have the right to own a gun, according to the academic journal, “Public Opinion about Gun Policies”, most people who focus on this side are “men, conservatives, republicans, and residents of rural areas”. This makes sense because often times men who live in rural areas frequently use guns to hunt and provide food for their family, by taking away their right to own a gun this forces them to find other means of sustenance. This can lead to disastrous outcomes because when men hunt for their family’s food supply that is often because they don’t have the money to buy produce from a store. Essentially, by creating these laws the government is pushing these families into an economic and health struggle. Because these families notice the threat to their health, their emotions become involved persuading them to focus more on this side of the …show more content…
Logos is basic logic, commonly based on facts and science. When supporting gun control with logos, one can simply state the facts of gun control to try to persuade their audience to their side. For example, simply the facts are that gun disasters have become more and more prominent in the news and just in general knowledge, so one could conclude that gun control needs to be pushed because it is becoming more prominent in our country. This encourages the point that we have to push gun control in order to keep our nation safe. Logos focuses on simply the facts, which is often hard to argue with when debating a topic; however, some facts can be warped to help one side when in reality it’s true for