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A surge in gun-safety classes is occurring as states relax laws regarding carrying guns. A growing number of people—many of
A surge in gun-safety classes is occurring as states relax laws regarding carrying guns. A growing number of people—many of
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2014-08-28
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A surge in gun-safety classes is occurring as states relax laws regarding carrying guns.
A growing number of people—many of them women—are acquiring guns for self-protection, says Don Gates, a retired professor at the Saint Louis University School of Law who has studied the issue of gun control extensively.
Gates says increased interest from women is a significant factor. "Women used to be told that owning a gun is a man’s thing," Cates says. "That is not the case anymore because women are being told that they should be able to defend themselves. "
The issue of gun rights has jumped back into the spotlight after two recent mass shootings the July 20 assault on an Aurora, Colo. , movie theater that killed 12 and Sunday’s attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that left 7 dead, including the gunman.
To accommodate the increased number of students attending gun classes, the National Rifle Association has certified 5,000 additional instructors since April 2011, adding to the almost 150,000 instructors already working.
Greg Block, a law enforcement instructor for city, county, state and federal agencies, says he has noticed a "dramatic" increase in class attendance since 2008. He says he now instructs about 100 individuals per month.
Last November, Wisconsin became the 49th state to allow people to carry concealed weapons, leaving Illinois the only state to forbid the practice, says Bill Brassard, director of communications at the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
Caroline Brewer, spokeswoman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, says carrying guns in public endangers more lives than it saves.
"No matter how much gun training an average American might have, it pales in comparison to the rigorous gun training that we demand of law enforcement officers, and thousands of innocent Americans die every year because of the paranoid(患偏执狂的)mentality and lack of meaningful training," she says.
Patrick Egan, an assistant professor of politics at the New York University, says the U. S. A. is actually at an all-time low for per-capita gun ownership. In the 1970s, one in two households had a gun; now it’s about one in three.
"Our attention is drawn to violence and gun ownership in the wake of these big shootings," he says. "But it shouldn’t lead us to lose sight of the fact that we’re also in a time when gun violence is at 40-year lows. "
Massacres such as the ones in Colorado and Wisconsin "tend to be followed by a legitimate surge in fear of gun violence and a surge of interest in guns and gun safety—and probably gun ownership," Egan says. Such increases tend to disappear in the face of long-term gun-ownership trends.
According to the passage, Greg Block________.
选项
A、has trained 5,000 gun instructors since April 2011
B、has witnessed a huge rise in gun-safety class attendance
C、has strongly opposed carrying guns in public
D、has assigned work to 150,000 gun instructors
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。本题考查有关格雷格·布洛克的情况。定位句提到,格雷格·布洛克注意到,自2008年起,枪支课的报名人数激增。B)中的witnessed,huge rise分别对应定位句中的noticed和“dramatic”increase,故为答案。A)“自2011年4月以来,已经培训了5000名枪支教练",第五段提到,美国步枪协会已经另外认证了5000名枪支教练,而非格雷格·布洛克所为,故排除;C)“强烈反对在公共场合携带枪支”是卡洛琳·布鲁尔的观点,故排除;D)“给15万名枪支教练指派工作"是对第五段内容的曲解,故排除。
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