I have grown up around and been raised by people that would consider themselves gun rights activist, and my early views of the topic was molded by them. As I go older though, I became more aware of the all the statistics behind gun violence and realized the issue wasn't as clear cut as my family made it seem. After looking into the issue independently, I came to the realization that what I heard was not always correct, and to further educate myself I needed to think more critically on the issues surrounding that topic and come to that conclusion on my own. That is exactly what I have done.

My values, and the values and rights of everyone in this country are effected by how we approach government evolvement in gun safety. More personally speaking, I don't think that any random person should be able to buy an assault weapon. I am qualified to write about this. I am because I have researched this topic multiple times over the years to stay informed on the issues. After all the research in the past, I know both sides of the opinion, yet I do not know why people are reacting to Obama's Common-Sense approach so poorly.

My first source is an article from BBC NEWS that details statistics about gun violence. It had no real central claim, but instead just discussed the statistics of 2015 since the year had just ended. It does use evidence, as it sights the sources it used to find the numbers about gun violence. 

It is hard to say what this author values from this article, as they are not documented nor do they show much of their personality in the article. We can, however, tell by the fact this article was made soon after President Obama's gun control speech that this article is a response to that speech. This tells us that, to some capacity, the author cares about this topic.

Again, this author is undocumented, so it is hard to figure out much about him or her. Despite that, we can see that there is no bias. The author only talks about the numbers, and never attempts to use any statistic to justify one way of political though or another.

The next source is an opinion blog from Eric Frazier on what he thinks about how people react to mass shootings. He talks about how he believes that the country is too full of gun that are too easy to access. He points to the NRA's actions as money driven and clams that those lost in shootings deserve gun control reforms.

He clearly values stricter laws on gun control and doesn't value people that only pray for those lost. He seems to want less guns in the country, as he gets specifically aggressive over the amount of guns in the country. His interest seems to be in preventing more shooting in the future.

My other source is the recent speech by President Obama on his plans for Common-Sense approach for gun safety. Obama details how he wants to do what he can to prevent more tragedies with an interest in keeping the people of his country safe. He points towards recent shooting, suicides, and the amount of people that lost their life to a gun as his reasoning for taking action.

Obama's major value is clearly trying to keep his people safe and to prevent as many shootings as possible. He shows that he values the lives lost by victims of previous of shootings. He talks about having interest in having more background checks done before guns can be sold and over all modernizing current gun control laws that are being exploited.

Obama proves to be very credible in his speech. He uses many past tragedies to show that this is a problem in this country, then points out that this is the only major country with this problem. To present his idea with as little bias as possible, he quotes both George W. Bush and Ronald Regan to defend his actions without seeming biased.

My research question is very debatable. It is a question of if gun control is necessary, which has been continuously debated in the past years. People have so many different interpretations of what gun control should be, so when the idea is mention the debate can vary from how much we need to if we really need any. The main thing the sources I have found disagree on is what is necessary for the future to keep the country safe. Some sources think we don't need too much of background checks and more mental health awareness, and another source would think the reverse. The difference in view I have read have told me I need to find a range of opinions so I can cover most opinions on the issue, as I don't think I have researched all major opinions on the issue. If I were to change my topic question, I would try to make it more specific so I could focus more on specific opinions.

