Armed Females of America
The first thing you see when looking at this website is the American flag used as a banner with a females eye, an AK47 and the 2nd Amendment. This gives us an insight as to the websites ideologies just by looking at this banner, we can assume that the website is a Female run Anti-Gun control website. Suzanna Gratia Hupp, is a representative of the Texas State Legislature and she wrote the introduction for this website. She met the Executive Director of AFA, Carma Lewis, who had lost her son through being shot. Yet she tells of how Carma felt that American females should carry guns in order to protect their families. This website is clearly appealing to mothers of American families to support the right to bear arms, it is interesting how they use the second amendment and dotted all over the website are talks of liberty and freedom, so this shows us how they are using old American ideals to try and justify the allowance of guns. "OUR HUMAN RIGHTS are worth fighting for -- specifically, our right to keep and bear arms, and we're prepared to fight to our death to preserve those rights. We always seek peaceful solutions first, but never underestimate the aim of . . .Armed Females". This is quite a threatening statement made and found on the mission tab on the website, this shows us quite a strong attitude that is upheld by those who do not want to lose their right to bear arms. One of the other tabs on the page, is the links page and on this page there are many different links to sites described as being; education and safety, women's gun rights activists among others, but most interestingly is the links to 'Anti-Freedom Organisations' or otherwise known as Pro-Gun Control.
Pro-Gun Control
Women Against Gun Violence
The opening banner on this website is a lot more striking as it reads '8 kids a day are too many...Our goal is 0' this of course referring to the statistics that 8 children are killed a day in America by gun fire. The organisation set out to prevent gun related murder by raising awareness of the danger to the public and the financial problems they provide. Many Anti- Gun Control groups criticise those Pro-Gun Control organisations of trying to take away their freedom as American citizens, but the WAGV cleverly use the right of freedom in saying that they are free to want rid of gun violence as of the dangers that go with it. This website also uses the technique of fear to get their opinions across, however they do so by offering statistics about how dangerous owning a gun can be, "A gun kept in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in an unintentional shooting, a criminal assault or homicide, or an attempted or completed suicide than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense. (Kellermann, AL et al., "Injuries and Deaths Due to Firearms in the Home." Both websites offer strong sides to the Gun Control debate and both appear to be quite aggressive in doing so, by trying to play on American ideals such as Freedom and Liberty.
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