Research Paper #5

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”  Ex: “Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?”	The Assault Weapons Scam
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV	James Bovard
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )  Ex: CBC News	Freedom Daily
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC	The Future of Freedom Foundation
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010	March 1996
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012	15 February 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it) Ex: <http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/09/twilight-is-a-negative-influence-on-teens-or-just-harmless-fun.html>	http://www.fff.org/freedom/0396d.asp

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV).

The 1994 assualt weapons ban is the first step "towards legislation leading to the confiscation of millions of private rifles , shotguns, and pistols".

Americans have owned semiautomatic weapons since 1890 and in 1996 " an estimated twenty to thirty million own the firearms covered the broader definitions of an assualt weapon."

Since the assualt weapons ban passed in California  "an estimated 300,000 law abiding citizens became new criminals."

Usually gun laws are easy to comply at first  like " New York City required rifle owners to register their guns in 1967, later the these lists were used to confiscate assualt weapons."

Before they assualt weapons ban passed "the FBI Uniform Crime Reports indicated that rifles of all kinds account for only 4% of the nations homicides."

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION): 

The assualt weapons ban was used to ban semi automatic weapons that fire one shot per trigger pull but the bills signers made it seem that they were used by every crminal on the street. Also the ban gave criminals the upper hand against law abding citizens who could not match the firepower the criminals had.Credibility of Source: 
The website goal is to defend americans freedom from any political party that wishes to do it harm. 

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 

Yes the site has to try to get people to join their cause.Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 

Yes I detect a bias as the author is a gun rights supporter.References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

The author uses data from the FBI to prove his point on my the assualt weapon ban is a scam.Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 

I plan to use this data to show why another assualt weapons ban will only hurt the law abding gun owners and the criminals will have little fear of commiting a crime.

Research Journal

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”  Ex: “Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?”	Kennsaw, where everyone is armed by the law
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV	Anna Fifield
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )  Ex: CBC News	FT Magazine
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC	Financial Times Magazine
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010	25 September 2010
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012	15 Febuary 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it) Ex: <http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/09/twilight-is-a-negative-influence-on-teens-or-just-harmless-fun.html>	http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5c1b6a72-c5eb-11df-b53e-00144feab49a.html#axzz1mVgIDPE7

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV).

Kenneshaw Georgia is unique because "In 1982 Kennesaw City Council unanimously passed an ordinance requiring households to own at least one firearm with ammunition."

The purpose of the ordinance was to "protect the safety, security and the general welfare of the city and its inhabitants."

Since over 30 years has passed the law is considered a major success in 2008 "31 violent crimes – mainly robberies and aggravated assaults were commited during 2008. In other similar-sized local towns the figures were much higher – 127 in Dalton and 188 in Hinesville. For property crimes – largely burglaries and thefts – Kennesaw recorded 555 while Dalton had 1,124 and Hinesville 1,802.

Even with so many guns in a town with  a population of around 40,000 "firearms are involved in less than 2% of the crime per year."

There are still some exceptions to the law, "conscientious objectors, felons, mentallly disabled and people who can not afford a gun." are exempt from the law.

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION): 
Finacial Times magazine wrote the article on a town in America where owning a firearm is actually maditory and conterary to what liberals thought, crime is dropped drastically. Further more  a study took shown that people feel safer in their homes than in many cities where gun restrictions are in place. Credibility of Source: 
The author is a credible source as they a a news agency whose readership depends on how real their articles are. 

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 

The web site has nothing to gain from this article as they dont have anything to gain from writing it and they do not sell firearms, ammo, or any shooting accessories.Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 

I do not detect a bias to either side with the authors writing.References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 
Yes the author cites many sources from the police chief to many gun owning citizens and how the law affects their daily lives in a good way.Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 

I will use this source to prove that the people seeking gun control to lower crime are wrong, infact allowing people to own guns is a step to reducing crime and making people feel safe in their home again.

Research Journal #3

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”  Ex: “Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?”	The .22 Caliber Rorschach Test
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV	Erik Luna
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )  Ex: CBC News	Houston Law Review
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC	Utah College Of Law
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010	28 March  2002
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012	February 9th 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it) Ex: <http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/09/twilight-is-a-negative-influence-on-teens-or-just-harmless-fun.html>	http://www.houstonlawreview.org/archive/downloads/39-1_pdf/HLR39P53.pdf

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV).

The author says that guns can have an important role in stopping school shootings "The deadly assault was ended by students  who had retrieved guns from their cars.  They approached the  assailant with the help of others and, according to one of the  armed students, “I aimed my gun at him, and [the defendant]  tossed his gun down.”

America has a gun culture as many citizens have grown up with guns and have had them play major roles in their life. "Culture shapes a group’s worldview by  providing definition to particular objects, informing (and  limiting) individual opinions and behavior, and generally  constructing an appropriate lifestyle within the group.  The  culture is transmitted among family members, friends,  communities, and so on, in a form of socially mediated learning. "

The title of the article comes from the way people see guns some see them in  a good way while others see them as horrible things, It could depened on where you are from as" A final geographic phenomenon of the pro-gun culture cuts  across both the South and the West: rural, small-town America.   In the United States, inhabitants of countryside regions are more  likely to own firearms  134   and oppose gun control laws. 135 "

Even your religion and race can determine where you have a preferance to guns or not as "minorities are  less likely to own firearms  218   and more likely to support gun control."

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION): 

The author is a professor on law at the university of Utah and provides a statement on the american gun control on the people that are part of it and the people that are against it.

Credibility of Source: 
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site? 

The purpose of the site is to inform of the fight over gun ownership and the people that take each side. The article is a pdf so I dont know who funds the site.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 

The author does not have anything to gain from this as he is writing for his college that he is employed byBias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 

No I do not detect a bias in the writing but I think more of the article was devoted to pro gun people than people who favor gun control.References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

Yes on every page the author cites his references and sources. I think it adds to his credibility as he also provides information on the quotes  
Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 
In my project I will use this source to provide an argument for the pro gun control but then use his  gun rights response as a source to counter the argument.

Senior Project Online Source - Due Wednesday February 1, 2012

Senior Project Online Source - Due Wednesday February 1, 2012

Research Source Log for Online Source

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“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	Gun Control Fact Sheet 2004
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV	Gun Owners of America Fundation
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )  Ex: CBC News	gunowners.org
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC	Gun Owners of America
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010	18 September 2008
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012	2 Febuary 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it) Ex: < http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/09/twilight-is-a-negative-influence-on-teens-or-just-harmless-fun.html>	http://gunowners.org/fs0404.htm

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV).

Despite what the media portays "there are more deaths related to high school football than guns. In a recent three year period, twice as many football players died from hits to the head, heat stroke, etc. (45), as compared with students who were murdered by firearms (22) during that same time period".

People may think that law enforcement protects them but in fact"Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606)25. And readers of Newsweek learned that "only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The ‘error rate’ for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."26

Some events can cause people to change their minds about gun control, in the case of  " many of the people rushing to gun stores during the 1992 riots were "lifelong gun-control advocates, running to buy an item they thought they'd never need." Ironically, they were outraged to discover they had to wait 15 days to buy a gun for self-defense."60 Funny enough that these were the same citizens who voted for the waiting period.

Even so called assualt weapons which are a semi automatic rifle with a detachable magazine, which are subject to a ban in california have some self defence purpose."Many of the guns targeted by so-called assault weapons bans are the very guns with which the Korean merchants used to defend themselves during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.124 Those firearms proved to be extremely useful to the Koreans. Their stores were left standing while other stores around them were burned to the ground."

Gun control serves a good purpose for criminals as they know that the chance of them encountering an armed citizen is alot less "Since Australia's 1996 laws banning most guns and making it a crime to use a gun defensively, armed robberies rose by 51%, unarmed robberies by 37%, assaults by 24% and kidnappings by 43%. While murders fell by 3%, manslaughter rose by 16%."

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):

 This source is a summary of Gun Control facts compilied by a pro gun owning organization. They debunked alot of gun control myths with information from governemnt agciencies and studies.
Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?

There are many authors that contributed to the fact sheet. The purpose of the site is to inform gun owners that their rights and to debunk that many myths that gun control advocates are using to push their agenda. The site is funded by the Gun Owners of America accosiation. 

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?

The web site can gain members from its posts and it also imforms people that their second ammendment rights are being infringed upon.
Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?

Yes this website is pro gun ownership so they provide no facts for gun control.
References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
The entire article is made up of facts so everything is cited.
Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?

I will use some of the facts on this site to support my postion of gun control.

Gun Control

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	The case against gun control
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	Cato Institute
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	cato.org
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	None given
Date Page was Last Revised	July 11,1988
Date You Read It	February 1, 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/html/pa109/pa109index.html

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV).

In the article two countries with lax gun laws Switzerland and the United States "suffer from far less murder rates than in other countries with strick gun laws".

The author also proves that more legally owned guns  do not cause more killings  as " between 1937 and 1963, handgun ownership rose by 250 percent, but the homicide rate fell by 35.7 percent.

In fact more law abiding citizens owning guns can actually lower crime rates in fact "In March 1982 Kennesaw, Georgia, enacted a law requiring householders to keep a gun at home; house burglaries fell from 65 per year to 26, and to 11 the following year."

This article suggests that if firearms were outlawed in the United States, criminals would make homemade firearms as "Bootleg gun manufacture requires no more than the tools that most Americans have in their garages. A zip gun can be made from tubing, tape, a pin, a key, whittle wood, and rubber bands. In fact, using wood fires and tools inferior to those in the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, Pakistani and Afghan peasants have been making firearms capable of firing the Russian AK-47 cartridge."

Some people argue that give people a way to kill themselves, but suicidal people will find other ways to kill themselves in "Japan, for example, has strict gun control and a suicide rate twice the U.S. level. Americans have a high rate of suicide by shooting for the same reason that Norwegians have a high rate of suicide by drowning; guns are an important symbol in one culture, water in the other."

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION): 


Gun control is a hotly debated subject with many people being for it and many against it. But some of the aguments on the side for gun control seem to have no logical base and are designed to make people fear guns which have been an essential part of our history and culture since we came to america.

Credibility of Source: 
The author is David Kopel a former DA in Manhattan and is an attorney in Colorado. He has had experience on gun control as  New York's gun laws are one of the few states that have stricter gun laws than California. 
The website is from an .org website for an Institute that is also a non profit organization.Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 
I think the author has nothing to gain from this and it makes this article an informative piece.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 
I did not detect a bias in the authors writing even though he wrote against gun control he did not go out of his way to slander his adversaries.

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

In this article cites over 184 sources from the NRA  to government agencies like the ATF and FBI.Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 

I will use this source in my senior project by using it to counter arguments by gun control supporters.