Talk:Public opinion on gun control in the United States/Archive 1

Archive 1

Constructive Evaluation: Public Opinion on Gun Control in the United States

When evaluating the article I can see that the article contains material on the topic at hand and does not distract the reader from the official opinion of the article. I don't believe the information stated in the article is out of date. I do believe that the is missing information. The opening paragraph can go into a deeper understanding of the topic at hand. It can be expanded to become more informative. The article jumps from the 1990s to the year 2012. I think it would be wise to add the decade of 2000-2010. The biggest piece of information that this article is missing is the opinion of gun control by the Republican side. I think it would be a good idea to try and find reasonable information that Republicans have put forward and that could add to the narrative of the article. The article leans more to the Democratic party on the United States political spectrum and I think that it would be wise to balance it out with some Republican opinions and polls as well. The views in the article are more positioned to heavier gun control policy and not on the 2nd Amendment rights of the individual. The article creator could look at both sides of gun control and public opinion statistics on it. The article uses reliable resources and does a good job of writing on political movements and polls created for gun control. The article could use more information on the years of 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017. I just wish it to be more representative of both political parties so that a new reader can read on both sides of the argument and find his own political opinion on the topic

Just wondering if this is a good evaluation of the article. Please comment below on how I could evaluate better and If I am on the right track to later edit the article based on my evaluations. BrettLance11 (talk) 16:01, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

I agree with you that most opinions in the article are more positioned to heavier gun control policy, which makes the article less neutral. Most listed gun control policies are over-representing Democratic opinions. In fact, some of the references are not appropriate in Wikipedia. A lot of polling data come from the biased releasing press, including CNN, NPR, CBS, ABC, and The Washington Post. For example, Cable News Network (CNN), which is owned by AT&T, is notorious for its opposite standpoints against President Trump; National Public Radio (NPR) is established by an act of Congress and owned by American government entities. Any information drew from these presses could be biased. My suggestion is that the article could add more Republican or Third Party's opinions. --Thesubtleart (talk) 00:05, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

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