Explain how a gun-control interest group might use this information to promote its cause. Explain how pro-gun advocates might point to the Constitution and respond to this information

Question

The most deaths are from suicide, and the second most are from murders.

Answer 1

A gun-control interest group is looking to spread information that sways public opinion in their favor, and of course the pro-gun advocates are doing the same thing. It is simply a matter of evaluating how the argument could be manipulated or molded to fit a given agenda.

If a gun-control group wants to emphasize the depth of violence caused by guns, this entire statistic/sentence is helpful, considering that suicide and murder are both forms of violent murder. It could help prove a point that guns are primarily (if not only) used in acts of violent crime.

On the other hand, a pro-gun advocate may use the same information to argue that the majority of gun deaths are not homicides in the sense that one person has killed another person. They could perhaps manipulate the information to argue that statistics have been skewed by gun-control interest groups to falsely indicate that homicide and murder make up the vast majority of gun deaths.

Again, when it comes to groups who have an active interest in swaying other people's opinions, it's all in the way that the information is processed and re-distributed. The point is not necessarily to present the information as it is, but to present the information in a way that frames one's own argument as the most reasonable one.