Stage 3

"Millions of gun owners believe that the administration will use the public safety announcements (PSAs) as a launching pad for a campaign to make gun ownership socially unacceptable. Now where would they get that idea?"

       The article, Gun safety is not government job by Robert Farago is a very humorous, and satire piece, although he does talk about real events, most of his argument is based on his feelings instead of facts. I think most audiences who enjoy a good chuckle would enjoy reading this but, i do believe his expected audience would be gun safety activist, or any parent owning a gun, because throughout the article he talks about how the Public Service Announcement would affect the kids and how they behave. There were many parts where he would use a real news event and spin it off as a joke which I found to be very helpful in getting the readers attention, "Relying on the same people who brought us Operation Fast and Furious to keep politics out of gun safety ads is like asking Lindsay Lohan to teach Driver's Ed." Him saying that got my attention and caused me to do a search on "Operation Fast and Furious" which i defiantly think is a great trait to have in a persuasive argument.

     The basis for his argument clearly lies with the federal government, how they are trying to interfere with personal life and regulate gun safety, he says "Not only is the federal government incapable of providing this kind of comprehensive instruction, it's none of its business." His view on the Gun Control PSA is obviously quite negative, in fact most of his argument is based on the assumption that PSA's will "brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."

Farago does try to make something clear though, "If Obama administration officials want to decrease the number of accidental firearms deaths among small children, they could arrange for the gun safety experts at the NRA to offer their time-tested Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program to all the nation's public schools." 

In the end, this article was a very enjoyable read, but sadly just not any hard hitting evidence. I do believe his argument is successful in that "Children's gun safety is a parent's responsibility. Period." the government absolutely has no right to interfere with such matters.