Confessions Of A Liberal Gun Owner By Justin Cronin Summary

“Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner” basically describes what Justin Cronin, the author, talks about in his essay. He basically “comes clean” about what it is like to own guns and how they actually are. Justin Cronin is a teacher at Rice University in Houston, Texas. As a novel writer, he has written a trilogy about vampires, as well as two other novels. He got his education, in English, at the University of Iowa as well as Harvard. In “Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner”, Cronin is claiming that guns are not that bad. The thesis clearly states: “There is a pleasure to be had in exercising one’s rights, learning something new in midlife, and mastering the operation of a complex tool, which is one thing a gun is.” Cronin did a good job of providing

He pretty much sates within the first couple of sentences, that he has been a liberal for his entire life and that he is entirely Democratic. He makes it clear that he is pretty fateful to his party too because he says that he has only voted for a Republican once, and that was for a pretty good reason. The reader then gets the surprise that he is not only just a casual gun owner, but somebody that wants to gain as much experience and knowledge as they can about guns. You usually don’t hear about a liberal that is a gun owner, and that is what makes this essay so unique. That is also why he wants to essentially “come clean” too. Liberals don’t usually own guns, but he does and he wants to tell what it is like to own a gun as a liberal and with the point of view that a liberal has. He is basically “coming out of the

Almost all of the logical examples that he gives are aimed towards the dads and the men of the house. They are also aimed towards liberals. An example of this is when he states: “I hope I never have to use one for this purpose, and I doubt I ever will. But I am my family’s last line of defense.” That statement is logical because the men who read this will think that they are the last line of defense for their family. In our society, men are viewed as the “protectors.” Cronin also uses some hiccups in the logic of his essay. For example, in the essay, when Cronin says “Some of the Obama administration’s proposal’s strike me as more symbolic than effective, with more than 300 million firearms on the loose.” I feel like he reworded the statistic to sound worse than it actually was. In that quote, he makes firearms sound like they are illegal and everybody who owns a gun is going to do something bad with it. When in reality, there are a lot of responsible gun owners out there. Overall, Cronin provides several examples of