National Rifle Association

According to the video “Crossfire : The politics of gun rights and gun control - the fifth estate” by Cbs News, it was 9:41 am on December 14, 2012 when Newton, Connecticut police received the 911 call from Sandy Hook Elementary School. However, by this time it was already too late for the children and staff inside Sandy Hook Elementary School. For a shooter armed with a Military style assault weapon, Adam Lanza a 20 year old with a disturbed mind had enter the school. This assault weapon he…

The American people have established two very distinguishable sides when it comes to guns and gun rights. The first opinion is termed “pro-gun rights”, and the opposing deemed “pro-gun control”. These opinions are so strongly conflicting that there is rarely any middle ground. However, when we evaluate the issue further, guns are seen as a multifaceted issue and not quite as black-and-white. When compared to other countries, America shockingly has the highest rate of gun violence. Simply…

On October 1 2015, seventeen students at Umpqua Community College in Oregon became victims in a heart wrenching and growing epidemic: gun violence in America (OR Live). In the three years since the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, 972 mass shootings have taken place and more than 82,000 Americans lost their lives at the hands of gun violence but little to no action has been taken to curtail the rise of gun violence in the United States (Lopez 2015). While the problem of gun…

allow for further insight into what pressures the national discourse may be under, and how these correlate to the overall lack of change when it comes to American gun control. Chapter One has identified a particular case study to be examined in relation to response. Chapter Two has examined they way key actors and the media, as active at the local state level, immediately responded to the shooting. Finally, Chapters Three and Four focused on the national response of actors through media and…

but this “faces opposition from conservatives and the gun lobby” (Vizzard). In 1995, Texas legislature made the decision to take back a “125-year-old law that made it illegal for ordinary citizens to carry a concealed weapon” (Singh). The National Rifle Association, was…

by guns. The Brady Campaign announced that the passing of the Brady Law attributed to the reduction in deaths caused by guns in the United States to drop by 27% between 1999 and 1993 (“Brady”). On the other side of this opposition is the National Rifle Association, also known as the NRA. A spokesperson for the NRA stated that more guns, not less were needed to avert shootings (“Gun Control Follow-Up”). Supporters argue that most gun owners are law-abiding citizens and have gone through the legal…

articles, “Battleground America” and “Gun-Control Dishonesty”, respectively. LePore writes for The New Yorker, a well-known liberal magazine, and addresses an educated, liberal audience. Cooke, on the other hand, is a writer for the conservative National Review. Although both publishers…

I will always remember the first time I pulled a trigger. I was 10 years old when my dad took my sister and I to a gun range. Just knowing that I would get the chance to hold a gun made me feel grown. Shooting at the targets with the rifle, or just shooting aimlessly, was probably the most nerve-wrecking and exhilarating experience I had as a kid. Since I was young, I didn’t fully understand the power or danger of a gun. To me, guns were just toys for big men but as I got older, guns…

Who would have thought that when James Madison in 1789 introduced to the U.S. Congress thirteen (13) amendments to the Constitution, that one of them – the Second Amendment would cause so much controversy? I am sure many of know what the Second Amendment is, but just in case you do not, it states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." What this means is “the right to bear arms”, simply…

By owning a gun are you able to protect your family or really hurt them? A story about a young boy who having known his mother hid a gun under her bed, retrieved the gun. The boy did this to show it to his neighbor, and ended up shooting the neighbor in the neck. This shows you that kids do not understand the power a gun has and the harm it can do to people. Why would you want to risk that happening to your child or to have him do it to another? On the other hand, you also never know when…