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Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30027342
The author has been writing for several decades with more than 2 books published, she has a very long history in the educational field and is a perfect candidate for citing.
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The scope and purpose of this work is to do with Gun control and how it truly effects a population, numbers and examples not just words. She proves to someone who would have now knowledge of the topic how and what is really happening with gun control and why it is not as good as it is perceived to be by many.

Intended audience is really anyone. No knowledge or heavy extensive understanding of the topic she was able to break down the information into manageable chunks.

She is arguing that gun control is not a thing that people should want, the district of Columbia had a gun outlaw system in place for about 20 years and the crime in the nationals capital gradually increased, and once guns were then allowed again, the crime rates plummeted to record lows. There is very compelling evidence that the reduction of guns leads to an increase in crime. Her only argument is that guns dont actually cause crime, they reduce it.
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She has many cited sources in her document, all that I checked are scholarly. She uses countless examples from both D.C. and England both having gun laws that outlaw guns.
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The work is very clear, she is too the point and has many examples of what she is claiming, she also has the counter argument very clearly. She is also very well researched because she states that it took her over 4 months to write the document.
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 * Davis, Scott. "NRA-ILA :: H.R. 58, The Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act ." //NRA-ILA ::// . N.p., 2 May 2011. Web. 4 May 2011. .**

Scott Davis is a writer for the NRA publicity page, he has been a member of the NRA since 1972 and has been writing articles since 1964, He has a firm belief that the NRA is correct in what they are pushing for. This is a great article to show the one-sidedness of the NRA's argument the article is very bias.
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The scope of the work is a summary of the NRA's stance on the gun infringement and how people are allowing one of their amendments to be infringed upon and how that is against the American way of life and right.

The intended audience is any member of the NRA or anyone who is pro-gun, there are many incidents where Davis refers to the opposing group as less-intelligent or uneducated individual

His thesis is really non-existent, it is more of a summary of a NRA stance on gun-control. He states that Americans are allowing their second amendment right to bear arms, and how this is something that if is allowed to happen the American way may be in risk of being torn down.
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The Evidence he is presenting is from numerous situations in D.C. and their gun ban as well as London's crime rates increasing due to the public not being able to own concealed weapons. He cites not one but several situations in which the local government had lied with statistics to show that the guns are really causing less crime but in reality the ban was causing horrible amounts of crime.
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The research is somewhat odd due to the fact that this article is a summary of a much larger and more serious issue among gun owners in America, it does however have wonderfully written properties and fantastic grammar. The work is also logical, it shows the possible issues that will be faced if the government does infact ban guns.
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//Journal of Law and Economics// Vol. 44, No. S2, Guns, Crime, and Safety A Conference Sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale Law School (October 2001), pp. 715-723 ======

Jeffery Parker is a well known writer due to his past with the "//Journal of Law and Economics"// series. He has been a teacher since 1990 at George Mason Law and has been known for several government court cases.
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The scope and purpose of the work is to show the reader that juvenile effect of guns is strictly negative and the laws that are in place are strictly for profit, not the well-roundedness of youngster's mind. Guns are tools that people should know how to work and use because of there high chance of at some point in their life seeing or using a gun.

The intended audience is anyone who is curious to why gun laws are being more enforced on younger more inner-city kids rather than the true offenders of people using the guns for violence and fear.

His thesis is
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