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| Author's Note | |
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| The Truth about Guns | |
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| "It's Time for America to Have a Conversation about Guns." | |
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| "We Should Start Drafting a Bill to Ensure Newtown Never Happens Again." | |
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| "Guns Are Lethal." | |
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| "No One Wants to Take Your Guns Away." | |
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| "Well, Can't We at Least Clarify the Second Amendment?" | |
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| 'That May Be, but Even Thomas Jefferson Wanted the Second Amendment to Expire." | |
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| 'The United States Has the Highest Gun Murder Rate in the Developed World." | |
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| "Okay, but the Overall U.S. Murder Rate Is Much Higher than Other Wealthy Countries'". | |
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| "But Other Countries Have Strict Gun Control and Very Few Murders." | |
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| "The United States Is Unique in Suffering from Gun Massacres." | |
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| 'Then Why Are Gun Massacres Now Happening More than Ever Here in the United States?" | |
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| "No Mass Killings Have Ever Been Stopped by Someone Else with a Gun." | |
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| "Regardless, if We Really Want to Stop Gun Massacres We Need to Bring Back the Assault Weapons Ban." | |
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| "You Are So Out of Touch. Even the Most Conservative Member of the Supreme Court Thinks We Should Ban Assault Weapons." | |
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| "No Civilian Needs a Military-Style Weapon." | |
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| "Yeah, but If You Modify One, It Becomes Fully Automatic." | |
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| "I Still Don't Understand Why Anyone Would Need a Semi-Automatic in Their Home." | |
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| "I've Heard that You Plan on Defeating the Entire United States Military with Your Assault Rifle." | |
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| "I'm Glad You Brought the Second Amendment Up Again. You Have to Admit that It's Pretty Outdated." | |
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| "Even if That's True, Everyone Agreed that the Second Amendment Was Only About Militias." | |
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| "Most Guns Kept in the Home Are Used for Something Other than Self-Defense." | |
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| "Keeping a Gun at Home Is Pointless Anyway." | |
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| "Okay, but that Doesn't Apply to Women. They're Still More Likely to Be Killed When There's a Gun in the Home." | |
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| "Forty Percent of All Guns Are Sold Without Background Checks." | |
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| "Gun Shows Are Where Criminals Get All Their Weapons." | |
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| "Even a Majority of National Rifle Association Members Support Universal Background Checks." | |
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| "The NRA Is the Poster Child for Bad Research." | |
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| "The 2004 Report Said We Need More Data and Research on Guns-and They're Right, We Need to Know More." | |
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| "More Guns Means More Crime. Any Data to the Contrary Is a lie or NRA Propaganda." | |
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| "The Reason Nothing Changes Is that the NRA Buys Off Politicians." | |
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| "The NRA Is So Crazy that They Actually Want to Arm Our Kids!" | |
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| "Columbine Proves that Putting Armed Guards in Schools Just Doesn't Work." | |
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| "College Students Are Too Irresponsible to Carry Guns." | |
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| "The Police Support More Gun Control Laws-You Should, Too." | |
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| "We Should Restrict Magazines to a Maximum of Ten Rounds." | |
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| "Don't Believe the Gun Nuts: Hitler Didn't Take Anyone's Firearms Away." | |
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| Winning Hearts and Minds | |
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| Denying the Science | |
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| Stimulus/Response | |
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| The Truth about (No) Consequences | |
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| Trained to Kill | |
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| Scapegoating and Excuses | |
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| The Way Forward | |
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| Notes | |