Tragedy Will Not Decide Gun Control Debate

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“Tragedy Will Not Decide Gun Control Debate”
Analysis
Maddox, Bronwen. “Tragedy Will Not Decide Gun Control Debate.” The Times & The Sunday Times, The Times, 18 Apr. 2007, www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tragedy-will-not-decide-gun-control-debate-k2j5kjx3vfg. Bronwen Maddox is the current Director of the Institute for Government, and was previously the Foreign Editor of The Times. In her article “Tragedy Will Not Decide Gun Control Debate” Maddox focuses on explaining both sides of the gun control argument in America as of 2007, beginning first with the Republican view and continuing on with the Democrat’s view as well as explain that the debate usually does not end in any legislative action. Maddox has no claim, instead she simply describes the American debate around gun control from the perspective of an outsider. If I had …show more content…

Personal Response
Maddox describes, with an abundance of logos, why a consensus on gun control will not be reached by explaining the political climate surrounding the debate. Additionally, her window into American partisanism enlightens foreigners about the conflicting views on how to properly handle gun violence. Maddox’s article begins with “Not everyone concludes that tighter gun controls might prevent more gun deaths, although this has been the common conclusion on this side of the Atlantic,” seems to suggest that America is the only one who has not gotten gun control right, it’s so subtle you can consider it a stretch, until you take the closing paragraph into account. Her assertion that “It

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