What is War?

            When we think war we think death, pain, and suffering. Many families lose their love ones while they are off fighting for our nation and what did our president decided to do?? He decides to extend the US military mission in Afghanistan until 2017.

            Fred the blogger writes a very well put blog “Obama extends US military mission inAfghanistan into 2017.” With his thought we can conclude that he is a conservative. His credibility can’t be fully trusted. He is obviously very biased so we can’t really trust that he is always being honest or stating all the facts.

 He begins his blog by informing to the reader why they were sent to Afghanistan, and that was to kill Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein because of the attack on September 11, 2001. It makes sense that America would want to get justice for all the innocent deaths on 9/11. But Saddam Hussein has been dead since December 30, 2006 and Osama bin Laden according to reports he has been dead since May 2, 2011 so why are the troops still there? They are still there fighting and losing American troops for no worthy reason or so he states.

His next argument he brings up is the attack that was made in Afghan hospital. Where innocent patients and hospital staff were killed because analysts believed that they were using the hospital for Taliban activity.

He then concludes his blog by stating that Democrats are bringing the white house and our nation down to the ground. He believes that on if GOP takes over that we will be better off.

The authors intended audience is other conservatives and democrats he wants to make the point that Democrat’s don’t know what they are doing when it comes to running our nation. His evidence is very weak.  Let me explain, he talks about how our troops are wasting their time being in Afghanistan but he is in Afghanistan himself if he strongly believes that our troops are just wasting their time and life’s being there why is he still there? He is basically contradicting himself. His logic is very contradicting.

Finally he states “we have the most incompetent government in the history of this nation.” But doesn’t really give any other good argument to convinces us to agree with his statement.  He only gives us army stories not facts but stories how can we conclude that what is telling us is true. His arguments are weak and biased.

            I completely disagree with his argument. I believe that his argument is not an argument really but he is just letting us know how he feels about Obama running this nation and he doesn’t agree with it. But just because he doesn’t agree with it doesn’t mean its wrong.

            The issue is that we in general all people are biased towards something so who is really right or wrong? Who are we to defy what is wrong and what is right. Think about that!

GUNS GUNS GUNS!!!!!

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” We all know where that came from correct. The second amendment, the amendment that has brought many arguments to our nation for years. The amendment that is now again being fought about this month thanks to the massacre in Ohio.

            The San Antonio express news posted an article Nation must act to reduce Gun Violence, where they are clearly in favor of reducing gun privileges. They begin by informing the reader that in just 274 days there have been 294 shootings just this year. That means that there has been more then one massive shooting in a day. Their argument continues by giving the reader more tragic examples of shootings. They begin to argue that shootings have become a daily thing for this country. They argue that even if some killings aren’t massive shootings they are still killing innocent people who don’t deserve to die, people who have their whole live ahead of themselves. These shooting don’t just occur in a horrible neighborhood that is known to be a violent place, but these shootings occur in your everyday place, a movie theater, a grocery store, and first grade classrooms.

In their final argument they bring up statistics, about 33,000 American die from gunshots each year. They end their argument bringing up the second amendment and stating that the amendment is not a guarantee for unfettered access to guns. They believe that background checks are necessary to help keep guns away from unstable people. They argue that there are far too many guns out there running free. They need to put a stop to all this gun violence and make America a safer place for its people.

            The author used very good arguments, the only thing is that he didn’t use many statistics something that would show the intended reader real prove that gun violence was out of control. He went more towards the empathy. He reminds his readers the many tragic killings and the innocent people dying. He states that those innocent people don’t deserve to die that they have their whole lives ahead of them. He wants to gain his readers empathy. His intended audience is more towards voters, people who can stand up and fight to stop guns, to make them illegal to control the killings. The authors logic is very understanding he wants people to understand that killing innocent people who don’t deserve to die is horrible and the reason these innocent people are dying is because of guns, but his logic isn’t a hundred percent accurate. He places his feelings where his arguments should be.

            I don’t agree with the author. I don’t believe that his argument is strong because he states that a background check will reduce gun violence and it might in a way because people who buy guns from a legal shop the background check can very much stop them from buying the gun but there’s other ways of getting what you need and want. Just like drugs are illegal in the United States it doesn’t mean that people don’t find a way to get their hands on them. If the author believes that the government is strong enough to get rid of guns and make them illegal he is very delusional.