Rhetorical Analysis Of Just Take Away Their Guns By James Wilson
Preventing Illegal Gun Crimes
Gun control legislation is tremendously discussed issue in Unites States. In “Just Take Away Their Guns” by James Q. Wilson he discusses about gun control and legal registration of licensed guns is not working to prevent crimes. So he proposes an alternative method that can prevent crimes and an effective way to reduce illegal gun carrying. Wilson accomplishes to convince his audience that removal of illegal guns must be the emphasis on gun control laws to prevent crimes with his proper use of logos, ethos, pathos and his effort of proposing the alternative method to his argument.
Wilson starts his argument by saying “Our goal should not be the disarming of law-abiding citizens. It should be to replace the number of people who carry guns unlawfully” (Wilson 102). By beginning his argument, he clearly states …show more content…
The use of ethos helped Wilson with his claims, valid examples, statistics and credibility of his essay. Not only Wilson was a professor of management and public policy, but also he is an author of many books. The books include The Moral Sense (1993), Bureaucracy (1989) and Thinking about Crime (1975). He also uses some other credible sources to support his argument within the essay which includes Gary Kleck, a criminologist at Florida State University, the fourth amendment, and Mark Moore, a professor of public policy at Harvard University. He proves the audience his credibility and his background in the knowledge of a crime. The author also discusses his counter argument and gives statistical evidence to prove why gun control laws are not working. When gun control advocates believe that gun owners are more likely to shoot themselves or their family than a criminal Wilson argues “There are fatal gun accidents just as there are fatal car accidents, but in fewer than 2 percent of the gun fatalists was the victim someone mistakes for an intruder” (Wilson
Gun control legislation is tremendously discussed issue in Unites States. In “Just Take Away Their Guns” by James Q. Wilson he discusses about gun control and legal registration of licensed guns is not working to prevent crimes. So he proposes an alternative method that can prevent crimes and an effective way to reduce illegal gun carrying. Wilson accomplishes to convince his audience that removal of illegal guns must be the emphasis on gun control laws to prevent crimes with his proper use of logos, ethos, pathos and his effort of proposing the alternative method to his argument.
Wilson starts his argument by saying “Our goal should not be the disarming of law-abiding citizens. It should be to replace the number of people who carry guns unlawfully” (Wilson 102). By beginning his argument, he clearly states …show more content…
The use of ethos helped Wilson with his claims, valid examples, statistics and credibility of his essay. Not only Wilson was a professor of management and public policy, but also he is an author of many books. The books include The Moral Sense (1993), Bureaucracy (1989) and Thinking about Crime (1975). He also uses some other credible sources to support his argument within the essay which includes Gary Kleck, a criminologist at Florida State University, the fourth amendment, and Mark Moore, a professor of public policy at Harvard University. He proves the audience his credibility and his background in the knowledge of a crime. The author also discusses his counter argument and gives statistical evidence to prove why gun control laws are not working. When gun control advocates believe that gun owners are more likely to shoot themselves or their family than a criminal Wilson argues “There are fatal gun accidents just as there are fatal car accidents, but in fewer than 2 percent of the gun fatalists was the victim someone mistakes for an intruder” (Wilson