Bcom 275 Week 3

ARTICLE REBUTTAL - GUN CONTROL 1

Article Rebuttal - Gun Control

BCOM 275

Article Rebuttal - Gun Control

For this assignment I chose an article titled "Data suggest guns do in fact kill people" (M.S., Sep 2013). The author of the article tries to use data to show a correlation between the prevalence of firearms with the amount of homicides committed by them. To support his stance he uses crime statistics from the United Kingdom compared to the United States. I believe this use of statistics from two different cultures is flawed and will attempt to show why.

First of all, the UK has some of the most stringent gun laws in the world. Even the police officers there don't all carry firearms. Firearms are usually only used by special response units. Now don't get me wrong the UK...