Summary Of Making Gun Control Happen By Patrick Radden Keefe

The right to kill
Patrick Radden Keefe in his article Making Gun Control Happen describes the urgency and the need to regulate gun control. He said that gun control should be an immediate issue for congress and the president because we have lost too many lives. He uses examples such as Sandy Hook ,Virginia Tech shooting and the shooting of an official Gabrielle Giffords,a congresswoman that almost died from a bullet in the head.Patrick Radden Keefe concludes that when there is a tragedy and fear the whole country is focused on action to eradicate the problem but after sometime the public forgets until the next scare.The last grande change to be made for gun control was the demoralizing assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther

Patrick said “N.R.A.spending on lobbying outranked spending by gun control groups by a factor of ten to one” for the 2012 elections.With all that money in politics there were no new gun legislation passed. Patrick describes a cycle whenever there is a public tragedy what precedes is massive scale arms sale from a possible new regulations from arms that never comes to fruition.The writer bring up the fact that in many stores such as c.v.s you can openly buy arms with small to no regulation.Patrick proclaimed there are approximately 300 million guns in the us alone .The government has not done enough to regulate gun control. Patrick Radden Keefe summarized by saying that there are no regulations to the amount of gun that can be bought and the N.R.A hold great power over american politics and there is nothing the

A tool used to liberate America from england to assist it to become the hegemon of the 20th century is in the midst of creating war in american society. The right to bear arms has created a heated debate in american politics. Two of such debates is from Patrick Radden Keefe who advocates for the the urgency and the need to regulate gun control and James Q. Wilson who promotes that gun gun control is not the problem and through the use of pathos and ethos these authors champion their truths.I believe that gun control should be regulated and that arms should not be so readily available to the