Short diary to call your attention to Zach Beauchamp's The Ultimate Guide to the Gun Safety Debate article over at ThinkProgress, in case you may have missed it. Since I discovered it by way of a ThinkProgress tweet that was encouraging further retweets, I figured I'd pass it along here the old-fashioned way, and at the same time make it easier (for me, at least) to get at, should the need arise.
Here's the opening paragraph (links appear in original post):
Since the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the debate over gun violence in the Untied States has begun in earnest. Some common talking points can and should be easily dismissed — the idea that regulating access to guns is always unconstitutional or makes tyranny more likely,to take two examples. But not every argument against expanded gun regulation is ridiculous. There are some, based on the evidence about and history of gun use in the United States, that are worth taking more seriously. You’re likely to hear them a lot over the course of the coming debate. Here’s a list of some of the more commonly made, more serious arguments against gun regulation — and why they fail to effectively make the case against new laws:
Here's that list, mildly reformatted for this diary. Each linked item will open the ThinkProgress Guide and jump to the specific section:
● “Assault weapon” is a meangingless term.
● The last assault weapons ban failed.
● Assault weapons don’t kill many people.
● Deaths went down after the ban expired.
● How can background checks stop killings?
● Are background checks unfair?
● High-capacity magazines don’t assist in mass killings.
● People need high-capacity magazines to defend themselves.
● The ban on high-capacity magazines failed.
● More guns, less crime.
● Why do gun-regulating cities have more crime?
Each item is discussed in the article itself, and contains numerous additional links to supporting information.
I hope you find as useful as I did.
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