Using general rules for composing short arguments (rules 7, 8, 9,10, 11) to evaluate arguments for generalization.

Argument:

Most major news outlets do not provide much coverage of defensive gun uses. There are more than two million defensive gun uses in the United States each year. But in 2001, the three major television news networks did not run a single story about someone who used a gun to stop a crime. The newspaper USA Today didn’t print a single story on defensive gun use either. The New York Times did publish one article on defensive gun use- but it was only 163 words long, compared to a combined 50, 745 words that year on crimes committed with guns.