Just Search Them All
Just Search Them All
In the essay, "Just Take Away Their Guns", published in the New York Times in 1994, Collins Professor of Management and Pubic Policy at the University of California at Los Angeles, James Q. Wilson asserts that legal restraints on the lawful purchase of guns will have little effect on the illegal use of guns. The author goes on to suggest that abandoning Fourth Amendment rights, and allowing police officers to make random street frisks will ultimately reduce the number of people who carry guns illegally. Wilson has had several books published on similar subjects but this essay was anything but impressive. The essay is unsound due to false premises and invalid logic including the fallacies of undocumented statistics, strawperson argument, hasty generalization, false appeal to humor, and a black and white fallacy which overshadows the entirety of the essay.
Professor Wilson's premise that gun control will not solve the number of people who carry guns......
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