{"id":950,"date":"2015-08-04T00:20:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T05:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/?p=950"},"modified":"2015-08-04T00:20:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T05:20:12","slug":"schumer-on-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/2015\/08\/04\/schumer-on-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer on Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, Inae. “Amy Schumer Announces Plan To Tackle Gun Control” www.motherjones.com, <\/em>Mother Jones,\u00a003 Aug. 2015. Web. 03 Aug. 2015<\/p>\n

The controversy amongst what to do about gun control has been argued for many years now. I would like to focus on the video provided by the article where Amy Schumer discusses gun control. She talks about several shooting incidents and how there should be a new initiative to regulating gun control.<\/p>\n

Amy Schumer seems to be a credible source because she is accompanied by her cousin, Chuck Schumer, Senator of New York. Assuming she is familiar with politics and legislative laws. Schumer is a respected stand-up comedian, writer, actress, and producer. \u00a0She mentions some recent incidents involving gun shootings, especially the one that occurred in Louisiana at a movie theater. Schumer shares that she took it personally due to the fact that it happened while her film was being shown. She also informs her audience about the\u00a0two people who were murdered. This making her credible by showing that she did her background research and implying how they were just innocent lives taken away.<\/p>\n

In the video, Schumer argues how there should be\u00a0better gun control laws being passed. She starts off by saying,\u00a0“Enough is enough” declaring that the shootings need to be stopped. She tells reporters, ” Unless\u00a0something is done and done soon, dangerous people will continue to get their hands on guns,” addressing specifically to criminals and the mentally ill. She offers two solutions to limiting the access of guns to these people. First she states,\u00a0“we can toughen background checks and stop the sell of firearms to folks who have a violent history or history of mental illness.”\u00a0Another strategy she mentions is to, “invest more in treating mental illness instead of slashing funding.” Schumer affirms these solutions as “common-sense solutions” to reducing the amount of shootings and who possesses these guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, Inae. “Amy Schumer Announces Plan To Tackle Gun Control” www.motherjones.com, Mother Jones,\u00a003 Aug. 2015. Web. 03 Aug. 2015 The controversy amongst what to do about gun control has been argued for many years now. I would like to focus … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rs-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}