Response to Our Blind Spot about Guns Writing Assignment

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Response to ‘Our Blind Spot about Guns’
Nicholas Kristof’s article titled ‘Our Blind Spot about Guns’ is an unadulterated defense of gun regulation at a time when the gun lobby under the leadership of the National Rifle Association has completely muzzled lawmakers in their attempts to mitigate the deleterious effects of lax gun laws across the country. Kristof skillfully compares gun deaths to automobile induced deaths and points out how regulation of automobile use among citizens drastically reduced road fatalities.
This essay briefly delves into two logical merits of Kristof’s arguments in favor of gun regulation. First, at the heart of America’s infatuation with guns, regardless of its fatal implication...