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.
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