Post 9: Opposing View Point Annotation

Why is the NRA heavily criticized through the media?

DeGroat, Bernie. "Negative Media Bias Benefits Gun Rights Activists." Media Bias, edited by Stuart A. Kallen, Greenhaven Press, 2005. At Issue. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ3010330214/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=a59b5658. Accessed 10 Mar. 2020. Originally published as "Negative Media Coverage Benefits Gun Rights Supporters and NRA," www.umich.edu, 1999.

De Groat talks about how the NRA attracts more negative feedbacks from the media than any special group. Because of negative news and regularly appears on media, NRA receives more attention and gradually increases in its memberships.

"National Rifle Association of America." Special Interest Group Profiles for Students, edited by Kelle S. Sisung, Gale, 2001. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2119000114/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=c9e32c18. Accessed 10 Mar. 2020.

The goal of the NRA is to provide firearms training and lesson and embrace the shooting sport. Its ultimate goal is to protect the 2^nd amendment, which is the right to bear arms. Most of the organization’s income is from the member. In 1996, its revenue reported being $140 million. NRA is also involved in politics and lobbying the congress members. Because of that, the NRA gets a lot of political issues around it.

Kates, Don B. "Private Gun Ownership Does Not Lead to Higher Rates of Gun Violence." Gun Control, edited by Helen Cothran, Greenhaven Press, 2003. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ3010140235/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=36220e1a. Accessed 15 Mar. 2020. Originally published as "Intellectual Confusions," Handguns, 14 July 2000.

            Don Kates discussed how the correlation between the number of sales of gun and gun violence cases doesn’t mean that gun is the reason the number of murders increases lately. But it’s the opposite in fact. The number of murders increases that leads to an increase in gun sales for self-defense. However, it doesn’t mean that guns could be the cause of death. But it doesn’t influence the gun’s sale.