The Issue with Gun Control and Gun Rights

The opinion article written by David Brooks," Guns and the Soul of America", does a remarkable job of appealing to the reader’s Ethos. David B also does a good job of giving efficient evidence on the topic, supporting his opinion and providing a better understanding of the points he’s making by giving links to other writers on Gun control. David B. made it apparent that the lack of gun rights after a mass shooting was unfortunately related. This idea came to light by David Frum; A writer for the Atlantic. David F. points out that gun control was loosened after the horrific and devastating shooting, that happened 5 years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary. This helps the reader better understand what David B. is trying to explain in this article. He continues with more evidence between the correlation of horrifying mass shootings and the government making it more accessible for people to buy firearms. A key point that David B. backs up in his article with evidence showing there is a correlation between the mass shooting epidemic and guns rights comes from, the Studies conducted by Michael Luca, Deepak Malhotra and Christopher Poliquin gentleman from the Harvard business school. David B. continues with asking the most obvious question; if there are so many mass killing’s why are gun laws so lenient? His response may be a bit bias, but other than that he has and an idea that could use some further explanation. If he were to use some sort of evidence to back this up then he would have been able to make a valid point. I believe what makes this opinion piece very helpful is that he gives links to surveys, other peoples work, and studies on gun control as well as gun rights like he did with the Pew Survey.  David B. finishes his article with the idea that there is such a high gun issue because people in the united states feel everyone should be able to care for themselves. Which is closely related to a high sense of identity for Americans. I would have liked him to go into further detail in this opinion, however, he did give a link to a political science professor, named Hahrie Han. that helped to further develop his final opinion. Overall it was an informative article, straightforward, and provided helpful evidence.