Pro gun website
The website I have chosen to look at for "pro guns" is http://www.keepandbeararms.com. This website focuses on helping the people of America maintain the right to bare arms, and in their words, "protect themselves and the people they love effectively from anyone who would do them harm". It's intentions are to provide readers with information about gun policies, and encourages readers to help them in their mission to maintain the second amendment.
Anti-gun website
The website I have chosen to use for anti guns is http://momsdemandaction.org/. This is website that recognises the dangers of the right to bare arms. The writers identify as mothers from America, using puns about doing the groceries and not using guns. As a collective they are taking action to try and stop gun access for children, and to stop the right to open carry, for the safety of their children and families. The website has links to campaigns that they are carrying out and way that people can help and donate towards the cause to help make it happen.
Overview
While I agree with people feeling protected in their own country, I do feel like if guns were not a right in America less people would feel the need to own their own guns. For example in the UK where their is no law giving people the right to bare, fear of guns is a very low problem and often not a concern.
I completely disagree with the right to bare arms. In my opinion it actually helps to increase gun crimes in America. I usually get the impression that without guns, Americans are fearful of their own country and that they need to have the right to guns to feel safe and protected within their own land.
Buying guns in the USA has become so easy nowadays that pretty much anyone can walk into a store and purchase a gun of their choosing. Surely with all the crimes that include guns, the law would have made it somewhat harder to purchase at least. I don't think America will ever take away the right to bare arms from its people, but I do think that they need to harden down on who is aloud to purchase. If this was the case I believe gun violence would see a drop in statistics.
When reading through the pro gun website, I cant help but feel like the writers almost try to guilt trip some readers into helping them with their cause. They use the line "If you're a red-blooded American (or patriot in another land with a heart for our cause) with Freedom running thick in your veins" Implying that people that don't help, are not real Americans. They even have a page for people reading that disagree with what they are about, giving them a list of different links to help try to persuade them to change their minds.
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