Obama’s speech. “Common sense gun safety reform,” Amaze the Audience
Imagine your son or daughter holding a gun, and accidently shoot his family member. Person shows up to a school building armed and shot 20 innocent children who would’ve had bright future ahead of them. This situation happened multiple times in the past. It is an alarm, sounding for us to create better gun control. America is a huge nations and gun control became a major problem as mentioned in the speech, fellow Americans have reportedly died at the end of a gun monthly. Everyone can deliver a speech, yet not everyone can draw the reader’s attention, sell their words, and gain attractions from the audience. A great speaker is known for his usage of appeals. LaPierre called
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How long do we have to wait until we see another body laying down on the ground motionless in cause of gun control? The next one might be a brother or a sister, son or a daughter or any family member. This has to come to an end, Obama speaks his heart out in the speech saying “In the month since 20 precious children and six brave adults were violently taken from us at Sandy Hook Elementary, more than 900 of our fellow Americans have reportedly died at the end of a gun -- 900 in the past month. And every day we wait, that number will keep growing.” This quote presents a real life experience of the whole nation that touches the lives of millions of Americans. Obama effectively appeal to the audience emotions by mentioning the tremendous loss of the 20 precious children, the six brave adults, and the 900 of our fellow Americans. Obama also appeals to the audience’s emotions by using another real life example where he argues a serious situation about mass shooting happens in amusement places. Obama states in his speech “And that's what allowed the gunman in Aurora to shoot 70 people -- 70 people -- killing 12 in a matter of minutes. Weapons designed for the theater of war have no place in a movie theater” This quote carries lots of emotions, how innocent citizens loss their lives in a matter of seconds. These machine guns …show more content…
He wants safe and secure life for all people living on this great nation. Obama not only uses the strategy of emotional stories of children to persuade his audience, he uses real mass shooting events to capture the audience emotions, as invites all the country to step with him and face this problem that’s threaten our safety. During the speech his reveling many sorrow events to encourage us to take this big move with him. Obama connects to the audience and expresses to them that he is the one that is going to make proper changes to this great
To begin with the unemotional Cooke apathetically uses Kathleen Parker's quote that, “Nothing proposed in the gun-control debates would have prevented the mass killings of children at Sandy Hook Elementary School” (Cooke 1). While Gopnik on the other hand beautifully captures his audience in an emotional storm just thinking about dead students cellphones ringing while their terrified parents on the other end, “...desperate hope for a sudden answer and the bliss of reassurance, dawning grief - is unbearable” (Gopnik 1). But back comes debbie downer Cooke who surprisingly thinks that, “To wish to prevent Sandy Hook is an admirable and human instinct” (Cooke 5). However he then goes on to explain that chasing a solution will not fix anything. Leaving his audience will a sense of hopelessness that it could ever get
43rd President of the United States, George Bush, in his speech, “9/11 Address to the Nation” addresses the nation about the day of September 11, 2001. Bush’s purpose is to convey the events of September 11, 2001 and what was and will be done about them. He adopts a serious yet somber tone in order to appeal to the strong and emotional side of the public and to his listeners around the world.
At the very beginning of the speech, he uses many examples of how guns have affected the lives or
A growing number of publicized tragedies caused by gun violence have caused a great stir in the American community. Recently, President Barack Obama has made proposals to tighten the regulation of and the restrictions on the possession of weapons in America to lessen these tragedies. Should the legislative branch decide in favor of his proposals, all American citizens who do or wish to own the type of weapons in question or who use current loopholes in existing policy would be directly affected. His proposals, which are to “require background checks for all gun sales, strengthen the background check system for gun sales, pass a new, stronger ban on assault weapons, limit ammunition magazines to 10 rounds, finish the job of getting armor-piercing bullets off the streets, give law enforcement additional tools to prevent and prosecute gun crime, end the freeze on gun violence research, make our schools safer with new resource officers and counselors, better emergency response plans, and more nurturing school climates, [and] ensure quality coverage of mental health treatment, particularly for young people,” have been cause for a large amount of recent debate (whitehouse.gov).
He makes sure his audience connects with him directly by making them feel at his level, and at hiss. This way he connects to the audience, and in exchange, helps his statement of unity. Using various examples of parallelism, anaphora and refrain, Obama brands the theme of equality and togetherness in our country throughout the speech, vital to gaining the respect of his audience. Obama recalls the ‘enduring strength of the constitution’ by delving into the past alluding to America’s allegiance to the Declaration of Independence by quoting “we hold these truths. that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”.
This was echoed by producers, actors, actresses and chairmen of the various entertainment industries. They stress the need and readiness to the part of the national convention on gun violence. However the writers emphasis hypocrisy on the part of the entertainment industries seeing they have done little to discourage gun violence in their premiers. Even though actors and actress banded together for a public-service announcement to urge enactment of stricter gun-control laws, what follows is ironical as these same actors and actresses are seen wielding guns in subsequent
As much as it grieved Obama to present this speech, he knew he needed too. The country needed questions answered. They wanted to know if the shooter had been caught, what President Obama was doing about this shooting, and what Americans need to do about the situation. Obama was able to answer all of these questions.
Many would argue that President Obama is one of the most effective speakers in the decade. With his amazing speeches, he captivates his audience with his emotion and official tone.
Gibson thinks the media have normalized the problem instead of showing the severity of it. Only concerned with profit, they dramatize the subject in order to make money. Consequently, the average American gets a twisted image of the reality of the problem. In Gibson’s mind, this is extremely obnoxious and disrespectful to all the victims of gun violence; people who, like Gibson, have already suffered enough. Furthermore, the politicians, whose main objective should be to serve the people, turn their back on the victims and ignore the problem, running from their responsibility. Gibson’s article serves as a wake-up call to not only the media and the politicians, but also to the average American: If no one else wants to take charge and try to solve the issue, Gibson will do so himself. To do this, however, support is necessary. By establishing himself as someone familiar with the topic while also appealing to every American parent’s maternal instinct, Gibson is sure to reach his goals. By painting this personal, horrifying picture of how non-existent gun regulation affects American society, he is sure to instigate some debate about the topic – a debate Gibson hopes will finally lead to a real
In the article “Gun Control Can Prevent School Shootings,” Bennett shares the effects of gun violence in the past, present, and future. The Sandy Hook shooting occurred on December 14, 2012 when twenty children and six adult staff members were killed. Barely a month after the shooting, eleven of the families affected by the shooting went to meet privately with Joe Biden, and members from the Congress and cabinet. Bennett stated, “They were preparing to wade into some of the roughest waters in American politics: the gun debate.” President Obama gave a speech in Connecticut vowing to fight for change. And as Bennett put it, “Members of Congress started acting as parents instead of politicians.” Bennett explained to the families that they couldn't get rid of assault weapons or high capacity ammunition magazines, no matter how bad the shooting was. The families got angry and stated they did not want to know what they couldn't do, but what they could do to honor their children.
Remarks by President Obama at the eulogy for the honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney; A man who was killed when an another man rushed into a church in South Carolina and killed 9 people while they were immersed in an afternoon mass. President Obama created different appeals and feelings through the use of different Rhetorical Devices such as Logos, Ethos, and Pathos. The use of logos ethos and pathos help the president convey his central idea which is to ensure the people of South Carolina and the people of the United States that not only are they safe, but they will unite to take this opportunity to create a more united U.S. This will happen through the establishment of new gun reforms.
By appealing to several different views, Wheeler is able to grab every reader’s attention. Using schools as his focus point grabs the reader’s attention on a personal level. A school is a place where your children, your friends, your spouses all could be, and we still aren’t motivated to change our gun control laws. Tragic events do not have to happen like those that occurred at Virginia Tech, The Jewish Day care in Los Angeles, and Pearl High School. Wheeler believes concealed carry should be allowed in every school. Let’s make the students and teachers of these schools and colleges their own heroes. Wheeler says we must embrace all of the varied disciplines contributing to preparedness and response. We must become more willing to be guided and informed of empirical finding. School officials base policies on irrational fears. Wheeler states, “What is actually worse, the fear of what we think might happen, or the massacres that actually did occur?” Wheelers essay is very well thought out and uses fear, credibility, and factual evidence to support his beliefs. My belief is we should allow teachers and students to have guns at schools, as long as they have gone through training to do
In the past week, between an emotional speech at the White House and a town hall on CNN, President Obama laid the groundwork for new executive action on gun violence. Accusing congressional Republicans of blocking gun reforms, Obama told those gathered in the East Room that something had to be done. "Until we have the Congress that's in line with the majority of Americans," he said, "there are actions within my legal authority that we can take to help reduce gun violence and save more lives."
By placing himself in this role, he creates the impression that as the father figure he is also in a position to give advice and serve as an educator. Obama then goes on to soothe and insure his nation that questioning and reflecting is natural, stating that “When a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations –to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless,” and then goes into the role of an educator by telling the story of each of the victims of the shooting. By telling each victim’s story, Obama further elicits an emotional response from the audience by effectively humanizing each person. This further creates a sense of unity, making it seem as if Obama really knew the victims, and making each person more relatable to the audience so that each member of the audience might feel as though any one of the victims could have been their neighbor or beloved family
There are three ways to approach gun-control: first, it is the citizens’ constitutional right to own firearms; second, firearms kill - get rid of them; and third, to have no opinion and not deal with the issue. Whichever view people have on gun-control, they must first understand the facts and statistics of these issues. Charlton Heston’s “Is Freedom Lost on the Next Generation?” and Paul Craig Robert’s “Unarmed and Unsafe” both study the opposing side of gun-control with facts and logic.