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Clinton and Guns article analysis
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analyzed article is a CNSNews article “Liberals Scramble to Extend Clinton Gun Ban” by Susan Jones. article analyzed in this essay is the USA TODAY article:“ Let the gun lie die”
Clinton and Guns article analysis
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The articles that were chosen for this essay deal with the expiration of the assault-weapon ban on September 13th, 2004. The aim of the comparison of the following articles is to show the ability of the essay’s author to criticize and analyze. The first analyzed article is a CNSNews article “Liberals Scramble to Extend Clinton Gun Ban” by Susan Jones. The author of the article tries to analyze two different points of view on the issue, showing that in quotes given from both sides. The article is mostly an assembly of a whole bunch of quotes, through which the author is trying to hide his objective point of view, making the article sort of a quote-fact battle.”…On Tuesday the 14th of September, an 18-year-old will once again be able to buy an AK-47 assault rifle in most states", claiming the existance of this only one law to control gun-selling on one hand and:“… In 1993, 'assault pistols' like the Uzi Pistol were banned under the importation law. In February 1994, revolving cylinder shotguns (Street Sweeper and Striker-12) were banned under the National Firearms Act”, contradicting the first quote on the other hand and making the viewer analyze the issue in details. The author does not judge, but lets the reader choose from plenty of facts which side to join. The author constantly gives the reader an alternative, giving quotes with contradictions. The quote language is quite convincing: ”Firearms that comply with the 1994 law "function mechanically the same way as 'banned' firearms and even use the same ammunition,- the NSSF noted”. The most convincing part is that the author always tells the reader who was the author of every quote he presents, citing either on known organizations or laws. The author does not use objective language in the article, but through the clear facts makes the reader follow his idea. The author shows the reader the words that can make a dramatically change in his point of view, especially concerning the latest events:”… the lapsing of the 1994 gun control law will give "terrorists, drug dealers, violent gangs the means to commit mass murder in a matter of seconds…". The words chosen in this quote raise negative emotions in the reader, emotional pressure. The author makes a slight grave on the future consequences, trying to hide it between the quotes. The author’s thesis was not very clear, but strict analysis shows that he is against the expiration of the assault-weapon ban and wants the people that have the power to prolong it to really do something about it. This thesis was supported by the last paragraphs of this article: “Who needs an assault weapon?" is an illegitimate question because "in a free society, the burden of proof is not upon those who wish to exercise rights, it is upon those who wish to restrict rights".
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The author tries to reveal the causes of the argument to the reader, and the article‘s structure has a lot to do with it due to its contraditional contents. The article can be improved by a disclaimer of every fact given from the side of the opponent and not by giving quotes from both sides. A statement–denouncement structure fits this article a lot more than the quote-battle structure. To make the reader understand one’s point of view is to logically eliminate all the obvious benefits of the opposite side. It would have made the article more inflective on the reader. And afterwards the statement-denouncement structure, where every given opponent’s statement is denounced, the author’s point of view would’ve been the outweigh on the chalice of scales. It would’ve remind the reader that the author is professional and if he makes a certain conclusion, he makes it on the grounds of the material he has. The article was very informative and it’s even possible to say– vital for people living in America.
Southern states invented new measures to disfranchise black voters. In addition to that the country has gone through a hard depression by that time and it had a great influence on the population. During the economic depressions of the 1870s and 1890s the currency question raised a lot. Americans of different incomes experienced the depression in very different ways. A quarter of the nation's railroads went bankrupt. In some cities, unemployment among industrial workers exceeded 20 or even 25 percent. The rate of suicide was very high and ran almost daily in many newspapers. It was a part of the massive worldwide economic crisis. People were shocked. The depression was still severe in 1896, making economic conditions a critical point of the political situation. President Grover Cleveland could not deal with the depression which American citizens were so aware of. The American society needed changes; a strong hand of a wise politician was required. During the first two years of McKinley's presidency the nation returned to prosperity. The 1896 election, as historians say was a "realigning election". The results of the 1896 elections reveal that the American society needed to stop making "make ends meet", but had a necessity in progress of all the vital national political, industrial and social fields.
The second article analyzed in this essay is the USA TODAY article:“ Let the gun lie die”, written by the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association- Wayne LaPierre. Both the author and the name of the article show it’s approximate contents. The author starts the article with the fact, around which the whole argument has been built. But immediately the authors adds his objective point of view of the reason that caused this fact. ”… Bill Clinton assured lawmakers that they'd be popular if they voted to ban semiautomatic firearms with certain cosmetic features. It backfired…”, stating that the seek of popularity was the reason of accepting the ban. This cannot be proved any of the given information. The author connects real facts with his own suppositions that have no base in the article. Such subjective words as:”… supporting a lie”, ”…paid the price”, ” …none of that is true”, “…embarrassing dirty secret”, are the substitution of real facts which the article requires. Therefore some quotes are not convincing enough for the reader:” …President Clinton even admitted that "the fight for the 'assault weapons ban' cost 20 members their seats in Congress."
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For making a lie into law, they paid the price…”! It is nothing but a personal supposition made by the author, in which he strongly believes. The article is full of adjectives expressing emotions: “The embarrassing dirty secret is that no government agency dares claim that the ban has produced any reduction in crime. More embarrassingly, no agency predicts benefits from renewing the ban.” No statistical numbers, no quotes of the agencies given to the reader. The author uses every day language to accuse the media, once again without any valuable facts: ”…Yet most media, including USA TODAY, willingly abandon a professional duty to edify and clarify such a simple issue. Too many propagate the fraud, even to the point of retaining the likes of Michael Moore”. The authors thesis is clearly seen – the assault-weapon ban was useless from its very beginning and no one has the will to clarify it, but the National Rifle Association. But nevertheless the thesis was not really supported by facts, but only by subjective opinions and plain accuses. The author gives a definitive and ultimate understanding of the issue, and gives no alternative. He pressures on the reader using a referent group of people – Congress members, still not giving names and quotes. The transition at the end does not give the reader a final and convincing summery:” Lawmakers who care about truth will let this lie, mercifully, die”. It was very interesting to analyze this article after the first one, though the article needs some changes. The article can be improved with statistical numbers, with either pictures or schemes of the banned guns and the similar resolved guns the author is talking about. Less emotional words, less anger and more facts, logically built cold facts. To find these facts the author could cite to the “Gun Control Fact-Sheet ”(2004) made by Gun Owners Foundation and discuss the uselessness of the ban on every point given there.
Both of the articles discuss the same problem, but from different points of view. They contradict each other. Both of them are interesting, but do need some particular changes to be more effective on the reader’s point of view. The changes are connected in lots of aspects of making an article work, such as: structure, language used and the most important part – weighty facts, which affect more than ordinary words.
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