Analyzation of James Martin, “Why gun control is a religious issue”

Write a 500-word analysis paper.
Directions: Below you will find link to an article on a controversial moral issue. Write a critical analysis of the author’s reasoning. Be sure to cite your sources using the MLA style.
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James Martin, dj, Why gun control is a religious issue. https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/why-gun-control-religious-issue (link to article)
Using the methods of creative and critical thinking developed in this course, carefully analyze and criticize the article you have selected. Discuss whether the author of the article proves his/her conclusion by the reasoning he/she uses to back it up. This involves the following analytical activities:
Checking for fallacies in the author’s premises,
Exposing mistaken assumptions,
Suggesting a creative solution to the main problem you find with the author’s view.
Checking for accuracy of factual claims,
Showing that there are objections to the author’s argument that the author fails to address,
Determining whether the evidence provided is sufficient to establish the conclusion
Suggesting a creative solution to the main problem you find with the author’s view.

Since this assignment is to criticize the view taken by an author in one of the articles given above, it is preferable to choose a selection that you think can be most successfully be criticized–that is, most readily shown to have a weak argument for its conclusion. Note however that you can agree with an author’s conclusion while not necessarily agreeing with the reasoning by which the author arrived at that conclusion. e.g., many people believe that abortion should not be illegal but that doesn’t mean they would agree with a pro-choice proponent who thought that abortion should be legal because a fetus was merely a cluster of cells.