Gun Control

Anti gun-control: 
http://www.nraila.org/second-amendment/the-second-amendment.aspx

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is an American non-profit lobbying group that advocates for the protection of the Second Amendment of the United States Bill of Rights, and the promotion of firearm ownership rights as well as marksmanship, firearm safety, and the protection of hunting and self-defence in the United States.The NRA website justifies why and how the  American people have the right to bear firearms by outlining and interpreting the second amendment. The website supports its argument against gun control by giving referince to the 'founding fathers' of America, stating they also supported the ownsership of arms. 
Jefferson said, "No free man shall be debarred the use of arms."
Patrick Henry said, "The great object is, that every man be armed."
Richard Henry Lee wrote that, "to preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms."

It also supports its view on fire arms by outlining the consequences of gun control  by stating that "Criminals ignore gun bans, and law-abiding people will be even more at risk with no effective means of self-defence." It further supports its view by analysing areas which have adopted gun control and compares it to crime rates. "New York City has very strict gun laws, more strict than the rest of the state of New York. In spite of this, New York has always had significantly higher violent crime rates. Washington, D.C. and Chicago, Ill. have banned the ownership of handguns, and both these cities have much higher violent crime rates than the surrounding areas"

Overall this website strongly and clearly expresses that it favours gun ownership. It justifies the American people's right to bear fire arms by heavily relying on the second amendment, criticizing pro gun-control arguments    while analysing gun laws in relation to crime and death rates in the United states and in other countries to further justify its view. 

Pro gun-control:
http://nyagv.org/
The next website opposes the website's argument above, arguing that gun control should be enforced and more strict in the USA, specifically New York. The website supports its argument of enforcing gun control in several ways, one being factual information of deaths caused by fire arms in the USA. "More American citizens were killed by guns in the last thirty years than were killed in all the battles in all the wars our Nation has fought since 1775." 

This website like the anti-gun control website analyses areas which have adopted gun control and compares it to crime and death rates etc.  68% of crime guns recovered in New York State and 85% of crime guns in New York City are first purchased from states like Florida and Georgia where background checks are not required on sales of guns" This means that the guns used to commit crimes in New York are obtained and accessed in other states which have "weak" gun control laws, and as a result New York is one areas that is "punished" and "suffers".

The final method in which this website expresses its view on gun control is the usage of emotive language (which the other website uses significantly less) "When felons, the adjudicated mentally ill, domestic violence criminals and other prohibited people have such easy access to firearms, something is terribly wrong" and  "Mothers, fathers and children die every day in America because guns are in the wrong hands." By listing the common type of suspects who usually commit gun crimes overwhelms the reader and is further enhanced by including "mothers, fathers and children". By doing this it makes it more emotional and personal, thus engaging the reader more within the text, which as a result makes their opinion on gun control more effective towards the reader. Therefore due to the heavy usage of emotive language makes this website's argument more influential that the anti gun-control website.