With the apparent escalation of gun violence on college campuses and educational facilities, and the current ability of the news media to notify citizens as it occurs, the topic of protection and prevention is a high priority in the country. Understandably, due to the foreboding anticipation of such tragedy occurring again and again throughout time, the subject will not rest, but how it is addressed and transmitted through our culture is of significance in society. As expected, many express their feelings and position on gun violence, from legislatures and law enforcement to NRA members, parents, and citizens. Following the Virginia Tech killings, continual debates occur over the best method to protect those in educational facilities from harm.
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The reader’s common sense acknowledges that it takes time and effort to learn to be good in a room with a shooter with a gun in hand. The author’s stated opinion is perceived as logical. The moral and authoritative tone is stated in the lines where Villahermosa proclaims his credibility for his position and representation in the on-going debate. However, Villahermosa’s background can create biased opinion on the topic of public safety and crisis situations. Beginning with his thesis statement, the author is misleading. He states, “I agree that allowing guns on campuses will create problems, not solve them.”(Villahermosa, 615) Yet the previous statements concerned legislature considering bills that would allow concealed weapons on college campuses, and not anything definitive. Then, the author has confidence in his delivery of why he holds his position, but he lacks outside sources for both like-minded and opposing opinion. Other than the structure of the essay, and the common knowledge aspect of who ought to be armed with guns, the essay has no hard examples or studies for content matter. Villahermosa relies on his experience to then question the targeted audience of educators if they are equipped to handle a crisis situation. He works to create reasonable doubt, with questions such as “Will their training include exposing them to a great amount of stress in order …show more content…
In his essay the logic used is solid enough, but he doesn’t explain why violence in culture is a threat to our existence. Psychology Today’s writer Ray Williams weighed in on the topic, “The debate may get sidetracked into the psychological issues and things like background checks, when the real issue of gun control and the U.S. as a violent culture need to be addressed”. In this outside resource, it was set up similarly like that of Villahermosa’s essay, in which, it had opinion-based writing with backed up bullet point. Williams styled his point style argument with statistics. The articles were complete opposite from one another; a reason for that might be the effected and targeted audience where Psychology today is found at most news stands the integrity of the chronicle of higher education is up for interpretation as a weekly news and job-information source. Villahermosa addresses the ethics of how to handle crisis in times of school shootings (Virginia Tech, Fort Lauderdale) and has the voice of reason tone throughout his essay. He doesn’t make an argument about the numbers of death or the changes being made in congress. The articles have two very different
The reader’s common sense acknowledges that it takes time and effort to learn to be good in a room with a shooter with a gun in hand. The author’s stated opinion is perceived as logical. The moral and authoritative tone is stated in the lines where Villahermosa proclaims his credibility for his position and representation in the on-going debate. However, Villahermosa’s background can create biased opinion on the topic of public safety and crisis situations. Beginning with his thesis statement, the author is misleading. He states, “I agree that allowing guns on campuses will create problems, not solve them.”(Villahermosa, 615) Yet the previous statements concerned legislature considering bills that would allow concealed weapons on college campuses, and not anything definitive. Then, the author has confidence in his delivery of why he holds his position, but he lacks outside sources for both like-minded and opposing opinion. Other than the structure of the essay, and the common knowledge aspect of who ought to be armed with guns, the essay has no hard examples or studies for content matter. Villahermosa relies on his experience to then question the targeted audience of educators if they are equipped to handle a crisis situation. He works to create reasonable doubt, with questions such as “Will their training include exposing them to a great amount of stress in order …show more content…
In his essay the logic used is solid enough, but he doesn’t explain why violence in culture is a threat to our existence. Psychology Today’s writer Ray Williams weighed in on the topic, “The debate may get sidetracked into the psychological issues and things like background checks, when the real issue of gun control and the U.S. as a violent culture need to be addressed”. In this outside resource, it was set up similarly like that of Villahermosa’s essay, in which, it had opinion-based writing with backed up bullet point. Williams styled his point style argument with statistics. The articles were complete opposite from one another; a reason for that might be the effected and targeted audience where Psychology today is found at most news stands the integrity of the chronicle of higher education is up for interpretation as a weekly news and job-information source. Villahermosa addresses the ethics of how to handle crisis in times of school shootings (Virginia Tech, Fort Lauderdale) and has the voice of reason tone throughout his essay. He doesn’t make an argument about the numbers of death or the changes being made in congress. The articles have two very different