Senior Project Online Source - Due Wednesday February 1, 2012
Research Source Log for Online Source
“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) |
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.
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