Ted Talk On Gun Analysis

Do Emotions Change Your Personal Views: Gun Violence
Take a second to think about your personal political position on gun laws, now imagine you or someone close to you is harmed or involved in a form of gun violence. Would your views change on the subject or make you u believe in them even more? In Dan Gross’s Ted Talk, “Why Gun Violence Can’t Be our New Normal.” he speaks on this subject on a very emotional level. Gross informs the audience about the story of his brother’s close call with death caused by someone having a gun who shouldn’t have had one. This event made him leave his dream job in a big New York advertisement firm to create a movement called the “Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence”. Through this movement, Gross has helped
This isn’t the only time you see him deliberately show the audience what he wants them to see, during his talk, he brought up that “90 Americans are Killed by Guns Every Day”. That is a fact that wowed the audience but like most of his charts and stats he doesn’t tell the audience where this information is coming from. So, to verify his information I did a quick google search, turns out his information was accurate but one thing he didn’t tell you was that over half those deaths are suicides. Gross did this on purpose because he would lose some of that wow factor if he showed the numbers how they are, where suicides are more common than homicide. This would have also hurt his argument when you think about how many people commit suicide any way without the use of
Or to be more exact the ex-opposition he states that throughout the year’s people have become more and more involved in preventing guns from getting into the wrong hands. He goes onto mention that “90% of Republicans” and “More than 70% of N.R.A Members” believe in more extensive background checks. Gross does this to show people this is no longer a controversial issue, people are working together more and more to prevent guns from getting into the wrong hands. Gross made a good decision adding this into his presentation even though he had already stated that “Brady background checks are working” they have stopped more than 2.5 million gun sales to people who shouldn’t have one. This shows the people who still believe strongly in keeping their 2nd amendment right that there is common ground and terms both sides can agree on.
Gross’s use of logos to support his argument is very well done and works wonderfully along with pathos to set the stage and showing the audience what they want to see. But the lack of information from where he obtained the stats for his charts makes him lose some of his credibility as it shows he is hiding something. As I stated he shows his evidence the way he wants to show so it supports his argument rather than damaging it. And as a speaker Gross has the right to do so to persuade the