The Brady Campaign is a very large organisation, and they are working to prevent gun violence through legislations. Ronald Weagan’s press secretary was a man called Jim Brady. Jim Brady was seriously wounded by a shoot during an assassination attempt on Ronald Weagan, who was the president of the United States at that time. After the harsh experience and the wounds mentally, Jim Brady and his wife Sarah Brady began to work for stricter gun control laws. In the 1993 the Brady law was passed. If you wanted to buy a handgun, you had to wait in a five-day period so there could be made a background check and a ban on the military-style, semi-automatic machine guns and the “assault weapons”. George Bush did not renew the ban of the “assault weapons” in 2004. The Brady Campaign argues that armed revolution and violence against the government is not necessary in a democracy.

The Second Amendment Myth and Meaning means that the American nation suffers from an epidemic of gun violence. They mean sensible national gun control laws are urgently needed to reduce this violence and killings. They mean the NRA’s constitutional theory is a calculated distortion of the text, history and judicial interpretation of the Second Amendment. They say it is time for the debate over gun violence to focus on the real issues, free from the NRA’s constitutional mythology and they say that the courts consistently have ruled that there is no constitutional right to own a gun for private purposes unrelated to the organized state militia.

The National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment is an organisation which promotes the Second Amendment right to carry and bear arms. The organisation has about 4 million members and defends the right to possess, buy and use firearms. The organisation is one of the most influential political lobbies, because it has the ability to deliver a very large number of votes for elections. The NRA believes that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right which belongs to the people as a defence against tyrannical governments.

The NRA believes that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right which belongs to the people as a defence against tyrannical governments, while the Brady Campaign argues that this right belongs to a well-regulated militia, which is organised by the government to protect the people. The two organisations disagree on the relevance of the Second Amendment in a modern democracy like the United States. The NRA argues that the threat of tyranny is always present. The Brady Campaign argues that armed revolution and violence against the government is not necessary in a democracy. The NRA fights restrictions on all types of weapons. The Brady Campaign points out that the weapons on the market are far more dangerous today than when the Second Amendment was written.

Logos: Logos is when you talk to people’s sense. Arguments are investigations, statistics or scientific proofs.
Ethos: Ethos is appealing to the speaker’s credibility, knowledge, charisma and sincerity. Example when a dentist is talking about toothpaste to our teeth, then it is ethos because the dentist has knowledge, credibility, usually charisma and sincerity.
Pathos is appealing to our emotions.

“Our nation suffers from an epidemic of gun violence” This quotation is from the Second Amendment Myth and Meaning. They use pathos because the word epidemic is appealing to our emotions. We associate it with illness and we all link epidemic to something awful which goes directly in and effect our emotions.

“Guns take the lives of 105 Americans every day – 15 of them are children and teenagers. In the four years between 1988 and 1991, more Americans were murdered with firearms than were killed in battle during the eight years of the Vietnam War. Quotation from the Second Amendment Myth and Meaning, which is appealing to the American people as we can see. They use a combination of logos and pathos which is appealing to our sense and emotions, because in the text it says that 105 Americans lose their lives every day and 15 of them are children or teenagers.

The Brady Campaign and the NRA have interpreted the texts in to different ways. The NRA believes it is a constitutional right to keep and bear arms, to protect themselves from a tyrannical government and the Brady Campaign interpret that it only should be legal for a well-regulated militia on service to keep and bear arms. The Brady Campaign also believes that “assault weapons” should be illegal and their claim is that when the Second Amendment was written they did not have the types of weapons that we do in the 20th century and they argue that armed revolution and violence against the government is not necessary in a democracy.