Jessica Valenti, a feminist author and columnist, in her article “Hillary Clinton knows gun violence is a women’s issue. So should everyone else,” argues that a feminist perspective on gun violence must be recognized when considering reforms on gun policies. She supports this claims by first incorporating statistics and direct quotations into her argument as evidence, then widening the scope of the argument by combining statements from Clinton herself with opinions of other feminists and including a story from a man’s perspective, and finally using first person at the end of her article to discuss the future of the gun controversy, emphasizing her conviction that gun policy is a pressing issue in America. Valenti’s purpose is to argue that