In the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting tragedy, Adam Lanza, the shooter, killed 20 children and 6 teachers. Some people consider this event as a terrible tragedy because they were emotionally affected by the death of 20 children. While others consider this event as a tragedy because it is rare, one of a kind and a freak accident that definitely doesn't happen every day, or even years. According to nces.ed.gov, the chance of a random shooting occurring at any elementary school in the United States is 1 in 88,962, and the chance of an elementary school child being killed is about 1 in 23 million, which is less than chance of winning a jackpot for an average lottery is 1 in 15 million. Wayne LaPierre, vice president of the National Rifle Association, spoke about the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary in his speech "Transcript of Newtown Shooting Speech." In his speech, he uses an excessive amount of pathos to emotionally arouse his audience and uses strong language with aggressive behavior to get the audience to agree with what he has to say. On the other hand, Sam Harris, author of bestselling books and whose work has been discussed in major magazines such as the New York Times and Scientific American. In his article “The Gun Enigma” he provides many statistical values ​​and facts to neutralize people's feelings towards the shooting. In this article I will compare each writer's strategies and explain their effectiveness. In both articles respectively, the strategies used by LaPierre and Harris are effective towards their audiences, but they would not have worked the other way around. In LaPierre's speech, one of the main strategies he uses is pathos while Harris uses logos, although both worked well for their specific audiences... medium of paper...ss shooting or murder, one life or they are lost human lives. Although both LaPierre's and Harris' compare-and-contrast strategies worked well for their respective audiences, Harris' comparison is more effective with large audiences than LaPierre's because it provides a rationale that is unanimously accepted from people. One of LaPierre's other main strategies In his speech he uses rhetorical questions, while Harris uses them much less. A rhetorical question is a question designed to have a correct answer. LaPierre uses it to force his audience to think alike and agree with him and Harris uses it to establish his views and opinions to show the audience his position on the issue. Last but not least, Harris has done a better job on LaPierre's prolepsis since then. he had none. Prolepsis is when the author anticipates the opposition's best argument and addresses it in advance.