Pro Gun Control and Anti Gun Control

http://home.nra.org/#/home

The NRA is the National Rifle Association.

On the website there is a an option to "search by interest", this ranges from beginner in which it gives you options about different programmes you can part take in and to help you find a local shooting range. Although they state that their training methods "develops safe, ethical, responsible shooters" there is nothing about not using guns or the bad points to having a gun. Which is what you would expect from a Rifle Association because they want people to join so they are going to promote it.

There is also a news feed on the home page which welcomes people to the NRA aswell as a link to "Chicks with Guns", which is a collection of photos with woman with guns which shows that they are appealling to all audiences and trying to get people to join. The fact that the women are dressed up shows this fact that they are trying to appeal to every audience whereas it used to be only men that they would appeal to.

There is an option at the top to join, which has a man with a white cowboy hat on, this has been chosen because cowboys are always seen as heros and carry guns so this is to connote the idea that to join would be a good thing. As soon as you click on it the sub heading on the page says "There's never been a more important time for you to join NRA." This makes people believe they should join and it also gives a list of the things you are entitled to as a member this includes a free hat aswell as insurance for you and your guns. This was interesting as it offered things that are very different, for example I can see why they would offer insurance as they are a rifle association so are trying to promote it.

http://www.csgv.org/

This is the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

As soon as you are on the homepage you can see a fact about gun crime which changes everytime you load the page. There is also a mission statement above this "The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence seeks to secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effective policy advocacy."

There are links across the top which have things such as "Get Involved" and there is a donate link in the top right hand corner, whereas the other page used the colour white on their "join us" page, this website uses the colour red throughout which connotes the idea of blood. So people reading this will see this and this helps to make their statement that guns are wrong.

On most the pages as soon as you click on them you are shown facts about how gun crime is wrong and there is even links to videos down the side explaining some of the facts. As this is an anti gun website it is something you would expect as they are trying to get their point across and a good way to do this is to constantly have facts there as then people will believe it as it is from a reliable source.

The two websites are similar as they both set up their websites so there is the oportunity to join right away as well as links to news and facts about them. But they are different because on the NRA website everyone is smiling as they are trying to sell themselves and want people to see it as a good thing whereas on the other website everyone is looking sad and this is trying to promote that gun crime is bad.