1. Why Obama Shouldn’t Write James Holmes Out of History

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/07/how-james-holmes-could-impact-gun-laws.html#ixzz22Kl8r8bO

The New Yorker`s staff writer Jonh Cassidy writes an article on July 23 about Obama not leaving the killer James Holmes out of history. Cassidy begins by stating that some the victim`s families made a resquest to Obama that he would give James Holmes more publicity. He argues that it is understandable why the victim`s family would want this but goes on to saying that he has two reasons for Obama not to do this. Cassidy writes that this type of mass killer needs more publicty, explaining that if they do not then the violence will just continue. He then lists killers and their related places and time in history, to show how their publicity made a difference in their communities, and after this states the second reason to not erase James Holmes out of history. The second and most important reason presented to the reader by Cassidy, helps the reader understand his point. He says that with Holmes getting more publicity gun law reforms might made. After this, Cassidy ends with a paragraph where he talks about the game of polictics and gun laws, and ends saying that        

"In this instance, though, the President and his advisers appear to be falling back upon the politics of denial."

Cassidy`s main purpose with this article is to show the importance of killers being more publically known. He gives examples from history and well argued reasons to alert the reader of the importance of the publicity of killers and how it can be used to change a society by making it safer. Cassidy uses many explanations and examples to help the reader understand his point in the article. In this article, Cassidy shows that the government might already be aware of this need of criminal publictity, and that people need to be aware of this.