Although Leah Libresco is in favor of stopping people from dying of guns, she does not feel that standardized gun control is the right answer; therefore, the best way to deal with sensitive issues is by taking a personal approach to them. One gun control proposition is to ban silencers. Libresco does not feel that this is the right approach, and she uses a simile to prove her point; “An AR-15 with a silencer is about as loud as a jackhammer” (Libresco n.pag.). Comparing a silenced weapon to a jackhammer proves not only that silencers don’t truly silence a gun, but it also aids in Libresco’s attempt to prove that wide gun control is unwise. Jackhammers are cumbersome, unwieldy tools, just as mainstream gun control proposals are cumbersome and