阅读教程4Unit3GunOwnershipandCensorship.pptx

Unit 3Gun Ownership and Censorship;Gun Violence in the United States;Gun Violence in the United States;Virginia Tech massacre;Water can carry boats and can overturn them. This is also true with guns: guns can protect people and can kill them too. Faced with this paradox, would you prefer to keep a gun?; Task 1: Choose two questions from the Pre-Reading part on P.55, and discuss them within groups (4-5 persons), then share your opinions with others. ; Our police are hampered by the lack of full gun registration. We need to follow the lead of other civilized nations in securing our streets! ; Over 25,000 Americans die each year because of shooting, accidents, suicides and murders caused by guns, primarily because too many Americans possess firearms. When guns are available, they have proved to be a far too easily accessible tool for the destruction of human life. ; Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. … Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. ; Criminals don’t respect the law anyway, so gun control laws will have no effect on criminals who are determined to get guns and commit crimes. Such laws will only deter law-abiding citizens from buying guns; this will give criminals more chances to attack people without any weapons and hence encourage criminals to commit crimes.;Reading One: Gun Control: One Side of a Loaded Issue;While-reading Task 1: Skimming and Summarizing the main idea of each paragraph.; Para.1: The author throws a question to the readers not for an answer but to arouse thinking. Para.2: He answers the question by himself which also shows his attitude on this issue. Para.3: He presents different interpretations of the Second Amendment. Para.4: He gives three reasonabl