Read the sentence from the section "con: gun control laws won’t stop las vegas-type massacres." pseudo protection offered by paper laws guarantees nothing. which sentence from the section best emphasizes what the author means by "pseudo protection" and "paper laws"? a the most ineffective, irrelevant reaction would be for congress to enact yet more gun control legislation. b while the federal gun control act is as complex as antitrust law, it did nothing to prevent the murder of 58 innocentsc risk assessments for mass events typically involve security armed with pistols and the screening of entrants with metal detectors. d proposals to ban the bump-fire stock are a side show to the real agenda of banning guns.

In a 10-12 sentence response-style paragraph, explore the degree to which you agree or disagree with faulkner’s message. “i believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. he is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. the poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. it is his privilege to man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. the poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to him endure and prevail” (faulkner 773-775).

Conclusions made on the basis of unstated or stated evidence are called .

Read the excerpt from the declaration of independence. governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. what is the author’s purpose in this excerpt? to inform readers about different systems of government to inform readers about recent governmental reforms to persuade readers of the need for governmental change to persuade readers to petition their local governments