Get Rid Of Guns By Molly Ivins Essay

Over the course of history humans always been in war and somehow found a way to kill one another. Weapons have become more and more deadly to the point where we have weapons that can kill less than a second. These weapons are called guns and they have been one of the most controversial subjects in history. Many people think their should be a ban on guns and their are those that think otherwise. Molly Ivins, the woman who wrote “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns” supports knifes over guns and says that guns only kill but, her essay is put together poorly because of constant use of verbal fallacies such as hasty generalization, oversimplification, and even either-or fallacy. Right away Ivins starts off by saying that she is not “anti gun, but she is pro knife”. From the first sentence she claims she is “anti gun” but as you read the essay you start to see that almost all of the argument her saying that guns are horrible and they should be banned. She then brings up the second amendment saying that it says that guns are the right to a well regulated militia and not everybody else; but I don't think she understood it clearly because the second amendment then says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Ivins then begins to use verbal fallacies;

She says that family arguments can end in someone being killed if their was a gun, but she doesn't understand that the same thing would happen if their was a knife too. She never looks at more than one side and doesn't go over any reasons why their would be guns and argue against those views. Ivins even tries to bring up England saying that England is doing better with gun control laws; she doesn't bring up any facts and she has no logical explanation or reasoning why England is doing