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"Rationalizing Gutlessness on Guns" by E. J. Dionne Jr.

"Rationalizing Gutlessness on Guns" by E. J. Dionne Jr. Atalanta Hoyt, Azalea Grant, Galyn Sumida-Ross. Background on Gun Control. Federal Gun Laws Second Amendment: "[...] the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

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"Rationalizing Gutlessness on Guns" by E. J. Dionne Jr.

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  1. "Rationalizing Gutlessness on Guns" by E. J. Dionne Jr. Atalanta Hoyt, Azalea Grant, Galyn Sumida-Ross

  2. Background on Gun Control Federal Gun Laws • Second Amendment: "[...] the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." • National Firearms Act: no firearms not specifically registered to person • Brandy Act: restrictions on qualifications need to possess a gun. State Gun Laws • differ widely • "right to carry" laws • "open carry" laws

  3. Vocabulary • saner- making better sense • Stockholm Syndrome- psychological effect when a captive develops sympathy for their captor • National Rifle Association- non-profit, education on guns, pro-gun rights • absolutist- complete unrestricted government power • lulled- to give false sense of security • status quo- existing state or condition • gutless- lacking courage or determination • resignation- accepting, resigned • tailored- make special adaptations for purpose • inconclusive- decision that is not a conclusion • deployed- place/extend/attack • the elephant in the room- fact that everyone knows put no one wants to point out • Journal of Trauma-Injury & Critical Care- for trauma doctors knowledge on critically ill • World Health Organization- part of UN concerned with international public health

  4. Vocabulary • Journal of Trauma-Injury & Critical Care- for trauma doctors knowledge on critically ill • World Health Organization- part of UN concerned with international public health • lax- relaxed, not enforced • evasions- used to avoid issue • couched- express in language of specific style • statutes- a law enacted by authority of supreme legislation • magazines- a place to store ammunition • futile- useless • impassioned- filled with great emotion • campaign flap- news not focused but constantly shifting • curb- to check or restain

  5. Tone • Constant tone • Ardent/Admonishing/Outraged • passionate about view • pathos (events and diction) • rhetorical questions • Commanding/ Forceful • Call to action • recognizes audience • diction • Critical/ Contemptuous • opposing argument • "them" • rhetorical questions

  6. Diction • Register: Informal • contractions • expressions • Themes • negative • refutation of opposing argument • "us" against "them" • Repetition • "we are told" • "bad"

  7. Persona • educated, intelligent • liberal • proactive "Wemanage to prevent needless deaths through rules on refrigerators, automobiles and children's toys, yet politics blocks us from keeping up to date on the regulation of firearms, whose very purpose is to kill"

  8. Audience • washington post readers, informed • liberal • supportive "even those who claim to disagree with the National Rifle Association's absolutist permissiveness on firearms lulled themselves into accepting the status quo by reciting a script of gutless resignation dictated by the merchants of death" "If regulation is futile, why do we bother to regulate afety in so many other ways?

  9. Purpose • argument to prvail • call to action "Bad arguments prevail when they go unanswered. That, by the way, is why it's not enough for advocates of a sensible course of buns to think their job is over if they write one impassioned column or make one strong statement after a mass killing--and then move on to the latest campaign flap"

  10. Argument 'It is our responsibility to stick with the issue of gun control till satisfactory forward progress is accomplished.' "Those of us who believe in sensible steps to regulate weapons are supposed to bow before this catalogue of despair and shut up. Most liberal politicians are doing just that."

  11. Syntactical schemes • "Can we seriously claim that our comparatively lax gun laws had nothing to do with these blood-drenched data?" • "Our country is the scene of more gun deaths than any other wealthy nation in the world. And it isn't even close." • "While we build a better system of care for mental illness -- and, by the way, nobody talks concretely about how to create and pay for such a system -- isn't it the more direct solution to ban automatic weapons . . .?"

  12. Syntactical Schemes • Paragraph pattern: Two long with facts, one short with theory/idea. • End: Four paragraphs of facts, leading to • "There is a word for this: surrender."

  13. Bibliography Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 28 Aug. 2012. <http://dictionary.reference.com/>. Dionne, E.J. Jr. "Rationalizing Gutlessness on Guns." Washington post. "E. J. Dionne." Wikipedia. Web. 05 Sept. 2012. <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Dionne>. "Gun Laws." Findlaw. Thomson Reuters, 2012. Web. 01 Sept. 2012. <http://injury.findlaw.com/product-liability/gun-laws.html?DCMP=GOO-INJ_DefectProdBoardModifier-Gun>. "The Washington Post." Wikipedia. Web. 05 Sept. 2012. <en.cikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post>.

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