astronomy labs

Team #: Group 1

Student Name: Tiffanny Ramirez

Student Name: Branden Vasquez

Student Name: Julie Imana

Student Name: Carlos Bran #5

Student Name: Miguel Alfonzo

SPC1608 Dr. Gunderson

Date: January 27, 2021

Title of Presentation

General Purpose: To persuade

Specific Purpose: To gain support for legislation to ensure stricter gun laws.

Thesis: The Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act needs to be passed because it will strengthen firearms laws and will save many lives.

INTRO: Speaker #1 Tiffanny A. Ramirez

I. The Attention Step:

Attention Getter: What do Norway, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Ireland, and Australia all have in common? They all require license registration, reason for purchase, safety training and safe storage to own a gun. While the USA only requires the second amendment and few states have stricter laws only requiring permits.

Significance: Gun violence has become a harsh reality of life in the United States. If there were to be more gun control laws then it would reduce gun deaths. Stricter measures are needed to reduce crime and prevent tragedies.

Relevance: In between 1999 and 2016, there were 572,527 total gun deaths in the United States.

Credibility: According to Aaron Karp, the United States has the world’s highest rate of gun ownership by civilians. A September 2019 ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 6 in 10 Americans fear that a mass shooting will occur in their community.

Thesis: The Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act needs to be passed because it will strengthen firearms laws and will save many lives.

Preview: Introduces the panelist Speakers 2,3,4,5

Speaker #2 (Julie Imana)

II. The Need Step:

A. (First Main Point) - In the United States, the amount of people dying at the hands of a gun is exceedingly high.

1. (sub-point)- Compared to other countries, the United States gun laws are extremely lenient, and based on the numbers, those countries are seeing fewer deaths as a result of their restrictions.

a. (Sub-subpoint) - According to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), as of 2016, the number of gun homicides per 100,000 people in the United States 4. 4 lives! Compared to democracies like Canada, Norway, Australia, and the UK which is less than one for each of them. (CFR, 2019)

b. (Sub-subpoint)- Americans are losing their lives, and guns are posing a huge threat to our country. The problem of gun control needs to be solved before more people lose their lives.

2. (Subpoint)Guns are getting into the wrong hands, and we can see that by the school shootings that they are even getting in the hands of teenagers.

a. (Sub-subpoint)- According to Education Week(Edw) journalists, there were about 49 such incidents involving guns on school premises in 2018 and 2019. (EdW,2021)

b. (Sub-subpoint)- According to EdW, in Bellaire High School, Texas, a 16-year-old allegedly shot his 19-year-old friend mistakenly and killed him. That teen was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison. So many situations like this are all caused because people are getting easy access to firearms.

3. (subpoint)- according to Congressman Mark Desaulnier, “Since the Columbine shooting in 1999, more than 150,000 students attending 170 schools have experienced campus shootings”. Kids shouldn’t have to experience violence to that extent, it’s terrifying.

a. In my school, drills are conducted regularly to avoid situations like that, and its terrifying.

B. (Second Main Point)- Another big problem with guns in the United States is the rate of people utilizing guns for suicide because they have access to it.

1. (Subpoint)- the problem with using guns for suicide is very prominent in teenagers, but the problem is still present in the remainder of the American population.

a. (Sub-subpoint) According to the Center For Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), the number of young adults taking their lives rose 47% in the past two decades.A tragic example as stated by Joel Gunter of BBC News would be the case of Brayden Schaeffer. Brayden was seen as a happy teenage boy with a smile always on his face who played sports and spent a lot of time with his best friend. One day Brayden texted his best friend, “I don’t feel like continuing”, and he took his life, and guess how he did it? With a gun. This is how a lot of young adults have access to guns and use them to take their own lives and . (Gunter, 2020) (CDC)

b. (Sub-subpoint)ACcording to Joel Gunter of BBC News, “Suicide is a silent epidemic of America’s problem with firearms”. Suicide accounts for about 60% of gun deaths, and in 2018 about an average of 67 people died by firearm suicide every single day.

2. (Subpoint) - Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, people are struggling financially, emotionally, and physically, and getting access to guns can lead to catastrophic results.

a. (Sub-subpoint) According to Sarah Burd-Sharps, director of research at the Everytown Support Fund, the combination of these struggles and guns is a toxic combination. Because of all that is going on people have started to buy guns to possible harm themselves. (Villareal, 2020)

b. (Sub-subpoint)- During the pandemic, there has been a surge of gun sales for civilians. According to Everytown for Gun Safety, between march and August of last year-which can be seen as the peek of the Pandemic- it was estimated that about 11.8 million guns were sold, and that’s double the number from last year. And in 2020 there was about a 20-30% increase in firearm suicides, and about additional 20 gun suicides per day. Those estimates were taken by suggestions concerning data from the Great Depression and Great Recession, which is similar to this time.

3. (Subpoint)- In a lot of cases, suicide is very impulsive, and having a gun gives little time for a change of heart.

a. (Sub-subpoint)- According to BBC News, a 2009 study reported that 48% of people who attempted suicide started thinking about it less than 10 minutes beforehand. (Gunter, 2020)

b. (Sub-subpoint)- Also according to BBC News, methods of suicide are also very hard because your body and your mind reject it, and it takes a while, whereas with guns it takes only a minute, and that’s how long Brayden-who I mentioned before- needed. (Gunter, 2020)

C. (Third Main Point)- According to Congressman Mark Desaulnier, Americans make up about 4.4% of the world’s population and possess almost half of civilian owned guns in the world.

1. (Subpoint) - People justify those numbers because some say that keeping a gun in their home is for their own protection.

a. (Sub-subpoint)- But, A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used to kill or injure in a domestic homicide, suicide, or unintentional shooting than to be used in self-defense. Keeping guns is doing more harm than good.

2. (Subpoint)- with all the firearms Americans have, there is no limitation on what kinds they can get their hands on, making it even more dangerous.

a. (Sub-subpoint) Assault Rifles or military style weapons should not be in the hands of civilians, it is the opinion of president Joe Biden that those weapons owned by civilians are a threat to our national security. (Elving, 2020)

3. (Subpoint)- Overall, guns are a problem in the United States, and they are putting each and every one of us in danger every single day, and something needs to be done.

[Speaking of what needs to be done, the next speaker Brandon Vasquez is going to talk to us about how to solve this problem]

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[Transition and introduce the next speaker]

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IV. The Visualization Step:

A. (First Main Point) - As Tiffanny mentioned before, there were a total of 572,527 deaths from 1999- 2016. Imagine an America where guns didn’t get into the wrong hands. A country that did not just let anyone own a gun.

1. (Subpoint)- First, that number would probably be significantly lower

a. (Sub-subpoint)- Those lives wouldn’t have been lost, those people wouldn’t have been robbed of their chance to live.

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Speaker #5 Carlos Bran

V. The Action Step:

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REFERENCES (7 sources)

Johnson, H. C. (2020, March 10). Text - H.r.5717 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Gun Violence prevention and community Safety act of 2020. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5717/text .

Trapp, Robert (2009) Text - ‘The Debatabase Book.’ https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b4ac/b8f5e1c5bb5366528abb7584a88b2afc66b5.pdf#page=127

Pro Con (2020, Aug 7). ‘Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?’ ProCon. https://gun-control.procon.org

RAND Campaign (2020, April 20). ‘U.S. Gun Policy in a Global Context.’ Gun Policy in America. https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/key-findings/us-gun-policy-in-a-global-context.html

Karp, Aaron (2018) ‘Estimating Global Civilian-Held Firearms Numbers.’ Small Arms Survey. http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/T-Briefing-Papers/SAS-BP-Civilian-Firearms-Numbers.pdf

Desaulnier, M., Congressman. (n.d.). By the numbers: America's gun problem. Retrieved February 06, 2021, from https://desaulnier.house.gov/legislation/numbers-climate-change

Education Week. (2021, January 26). School shootings this YEAR: How many and where. Retrieved February 06, 2021, from https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2020/01

Elving, R. (2019, August 13). The U.S. once had a ban on assault weapons - Why did it expire? Retrieved February 06, 2021, from https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expire

Evershed, N. (2019, March 19). Strict firearm laws reduce gun deaths: Here's the evidence. Retrieved February 06, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2019/mar/20/strict-firearm-laws-reduce-gun-deaths-heres-the-evidence

Everytown for Gun Safety. (2020, September 01). Everytown responds to New FBI data Suggesting Americans bought 90% more guns in August than they did last year. Retrieved February 06, 2021, from https://everytown.org/press/everytown-responds-to-new-fbi-data-suggesting-americans-bought-90-more-guns-in-august-than-they-did-last-year/

Gunter, J. (2020, February 07). The silent epidemic of America's problem with guns. Retrieved February 06, 2021, from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50292935#:~:text=Suicide%20is%20the%20silent%20epidemic,account%20for%20less%20than%201%25.&text=Part%20of%20the%20problem%20with,far%20the%20most%20fatal%20means

Masters, J. (2019, August 6). U.S. gun POLICY: Global Comparisons. Retrieved February 06, 2021, from https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-gun-policy-global-comparisons

Oren Miron, M. (2019, June 18). Suicide rates in adolescents and young Adults, 2000 to 2017. Retrieved February 06, 2021, from https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2735809

Villarreal, A. (2020, October 06). Gun suicide is OVERWHELMING US rural districts in west and SOUTH, report says. Retrieved February 06, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/06/us-gun-suicide-rural-districts-west-south-report

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