In the article, “Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner,” Justin Cronin, a liberal award-winning novelist and a professor at Rice University, describes the experiences he has underwent during in his life that caused his beliefs of gun control. Cronin wrote this article after a shooter entered an elementary school and killed 27 innocent people. He believes it is too easy for Americans to buy guns, but he also believes many people who are against guns do not look at the reality of gun control. They want to make unreasonable changes that are near impossible. Cronin is knowledgeable when it comes to guns since he owns six pistols that are all semi automatic. He also shows his experience by saying he goes to a shooting range at least once a week to
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Hurricane Rita was heading straight for Houston. Cronin and his wife packed up their kids and left. After six hours and fifty miles, they reached a scene that resembled an apocalypse: stores were picked clean of their goods, trash was everywhere, and families were sleeping not far from the road. Then, Cronin remembered that many of these people had guns, and he had children and a couple of thousand dollars with nothing to protect himself from the possibility of a dangerous person looking to steal. After his wife wouldn’t let him leave the car, Justin decided to turn around and head straight where the hurricane was predicted to hit. With luck, Hurricane Rita turned away from Houston. If it hadn’t, Cronin believed the modern, technological services many depended on for basic needs would fail and cause people to become desperate …show more content…
His delayed thesis statement causes gun advocates and anti-gun activists to read throughout most of article before they hear his opinion. If his thesis statement was in the beginning, it would cause these people to either stop reading or shut down their open mind. The article is informal because it uses very little statistics or facts. The author uses events from his life and hypotheticals that could of happened to him. The article still has a serious tone, which it needs when talking about a topic that most people have a strong opinion on. It also needs this tone because of the events that are related to it
Hurricane Rita was heading straight for Houston. Cronin and his wife packed up their kids and left. After six hours and fifty miles, they reached a scene that resembled an apocalypse: stores were picked clean of their goods, trash was everywhere, and families were sleeping not far from the road. Then, Cronin remembered that many of these people had guns, and he had children and a couple of thousand dollars with nothing to protect himself from the possibility of a dangerous person looking to steal. After his wife wouldn’t let him leave the car, Justin decided to turn around and head straight where the hurricane was predicted to hit. With luck, Hurricane Rita turned away from Houston. If it hadn’t, Cronin believed the modern, technological services many depended on for basic needs would fail and cause people to become desperate …show more content…
His delayed thesis statement causes gun advocates and anti-gun activists to read throughout most of article before they hear his opinion. If his thesis statement was in the beginning, it would cause these people to either stop reading or shut down their open mind. The article is informal because it uses very little statistics or facts. The author uses events from his life and hypotheticals that could of happened to him. The article still has a serious tone, which it needs when talking about a topic that most people have a strong opinion on. It also needs this tone because of the events that are related to it