Interest Groups v Political Parties
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- Topic
- Interest Groups vs Political Parties
- Interest Groups
- FREEDOM FROM GUN VIOLENCE(CSGV)
- RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS(NRA
- Political Parties
- Parties value personal rights, freedom, and educational opportunities for all. They want the government's duties to include protecting the nation, preserve the environment, and help its citizens.
- Interest groups and political parties can work together to help get each other get to their shared interests and goals in policies. Interest groups gather supporters of a specific issue who'll support a political party's candidate of similar beliefs in office, so they can work on policies which benefit both of them.
- Policy
- GUN CONTROLHow are guns used? How do criminals get access to guns? Does media influence gun violence? Will limiting their accessibility solve the problem? Will no guns reduce deaths by other weapons? How is it effective or ineffective?
- They are groups of people who share the same goals and organize themselves in order to try and push for what they wish to get accomplished in a policy. They are more likely to use various forms of civil disobedience to get their point across to others, and they stimulate public interest in governmental affairs.
- Interest Group Strategies
- We try to educate people on our views and why we support gun control or not; We consider ourselves policy experts on gun control. Political action committees sometimes offer monetary donations to support our group activities on guns control such as lobbying. Lobbying is where members from our groups seek politicians to influence them to be on our side of the issue so we can meet our goals through the agenda.
- A group of organized people who coordinate candidates to compete in the country's elections. They base their policy agendas on people's concerns. They commonly have similar ideas and promote specific goals, and they seek to gain an office to control the governing system.
- Political Party Strategies
- Political parties nominate their candidates who'll try to appeal to most people ad they represent the party's position on gun control. They are in charge of informing the audience on the pros and cons of firearms being restricted and violence relations. During their speeches, the media will cover the candidate and publicize it for people to recognize what each candidate stands for and to decide who they will be supporting in the next election.
- Gun Control: A set of policies that regulates the manufacture, sale, and use of firearms. Some people want more restrictions because they attribute guns to violence, yet others say it is their right to have firearms.
- Groups who support gun control include Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Brady campaign to prevent gun violence, Million Mom March, and Americans for Gun Safety among others. Groups who are against gun control are National Rifle Association, Second Amendment Foundation, and Gun Owners of America to name a few.
- The Republican party's 2020 candidate, Donald Trump, supported gun rights while the Democratic party 2020 candidate, Joe Biden, favored gun control. Republicans argued restricting guns will not solve violence issues and it was their right to own them. Democrats, however, stated that controlling guns was beneficial due to decrease in crimes related to them and a greater public sense of safety.
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