Of course we need to talk about gun violence in America. The question is how to do it effectively

A Op-Ed Article of the Los Angeles Times titled, Of course we need to talk about gun violence in America. The question is how to do it effectively was posted on October 6, 2017. This Opinion article was published in response to the Las Vegas massacre that happened this past Sunday on October 1st. The author, Adam Winkler argues that instead of focusing on when to discuss gun violence in American we should be focusing on how to reduce the harm provoked by gun violence and discussing what can be done to lower the number of incidents inflicted by guns. Winkler makes the argument that we, the American people make the mistake of devoting excessive attention to mass shootings and that mass shooting's an extremely hard problem to stop especially when we live in a country with more than 300 million guns and that instead of focusing on mass murders, we need to address everyday gun violence in order to make the laws work. The intended audience is anyone that wants a stricter gun control policy that would be effective in reducing gun violence in America.
Winkler makes a valid point on how we waste more time debating on what we can do to prevent mass shootings, “which account for only a fraction of gun victims,” and how we rarely spend any time, “preventing the most common way guns are misused”. The author provides statistical evidence of daily gun violence and is supported by an external link website. Also, Winkler claims that the NRA is the one that stands in the way of most gun control laws not the Constitution. Winkler supports this statement by providing an article that talks about the NRA against the expanded gun regulation.
After reading his argument on how we should effectively address everyday gun violence instead of debating when it should be discuss, I would say that I agree with Winkler's statements, but I feel like he could have provided more detailed suggestions on how the American people could contribute accordingly to try to stop everyday gun violence and hopefully create the change that America needs in gun regulations.



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