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                Michelle Malkin is a Fox News channel contributor and author of Culture of Corruption.  On the  website, Townhall in her article There Is No Such Thing A “Deserving Dreamer", Malkin loses her temper about illegal immigrants voicing their problems and doesn’t want  to listen to anyone’s problems. She argues that everybody has their own problem and even Americans are not getting the help they need for the stress that they have.

                Malkin uses evidence of Americans without any health care or any jobs. Another thing she refers is to Jamiel Shaw, Sr., who was killed by an illegal immigrant back in 2012. She uses strong words such as “mercilessly”, and tells us to imagine spending our holidays talking to a grave.  It shows me that she sees all immigrants the same and no one is different. All in her mind are dangerous illegals.

                Her main claim in the article is that no dreamer deserves nothing in this country due to their parent’s illegal activity. She believes that the kids that are born here don’t own anything and deserve nothing. Because Michelle Malkin often appears in Fox news where she is popular with the conservative audience, I will assume that her audience on the blog includes the people that have similar political views as she does.

                 From her evidence and her argument, I totally disagree with her article.  Throughout the article, the author just harasses the readers and states that “there is no such thing as a deserving Dreamer.” Malkin specifically points out young adults who were brought to the United States as kids and throws the blame on their parents for being here illegally. From my understanding she sees every immigrant the same and doesn’t give any hope to anybody. A lot more people have been killed by Americans than by an immigrant person. Malkin just looks at part of the immigrant people and doesn’t see success in any immigrants at all. I believe that everyone has the right to be live in country without being afraid and all of us deserve to be living the American dream. 

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Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. On the website CNN Peter Bergen, in his article America the lethal, argues that America is special due to diversity and innovation that it also special in negative ways.

His main claim in the article is that our current gun laws are not sufficient. Because his article is on CNN, his audience is especially moderates and Democrats in the United States. As a national security analyst, for a major news network we should be able to trust his facts regarding gun violence.

Among advanced countries, the United States allows the citizens to carry a gun due to the Second Amendment that was published back in the 1700s. This law was created in the past when no one had expectation of the violence and the tragedies that we are facing now.  He then mentions the difference between different countries such as the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has the same laws but has way less death than the American culture. According to the FBI Statistics more citizens are killed by Americans than by terrorism each year.

Bergen uses evidence of gun control throughout the history. He even refers to an attack in 1996 in school in Scotland but he mentions incidence like this “exception to the rule.” He goes back to the event of the 9/11 attack and also to the Sandy Hook school and the most recent one, the Las Vegas shooting that killed at least 58 citizens and injured more than 500.

At the end of the article, the author seems horrified with the same tragedies that been happening but he gives only hope for a change. I totally understand his point of view in the article, because we have been going through so much gun violence that they have become ordinary to hear about. Simply hoping for a change would lead to a long process that could leave a lot more innocent citizens dead.