Gun Control: Its History And Effects (Without The BS)

"Malcolm Gladwell is a bestselling author and longtime New Yorker staff writer. He’s also the co-founder and president of the audio-production company Pushkin Industries, where he hosts Revisionist History, a podcast about things “overlooked and misunderstood.” He joins me to talk about gun culture, and what we get wrong about firearms in America. He also reflects on some of his older writing on policing, epidemics, and first impressions."

Click on the link below for an enlightening podcast interview regarding the history of gun control. Hint: your conservative friends and relatives have it all wrong:

Revisionist Gun History

It's The NRA That Began It

"There are more guns than cars in the United States. And studies show that gun sales go up following mass shootings."  ~ Ryan Busse 30 years as a leader at one of America’s most popular gun companies. 

" - - - Busse is a former firearms executive at Kimber America and is the author of “Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America,” in which he talks about how America’s multibillion-dollar gun industry has profited from and fueled cultural divisions. He joins WITHpod to discuss how we got to this point, why he chose to leave the industry, what he observed behind closed doors at NRA meetings, how political division fuels extremism, and what the failure to enact stricter legislation means for the future of our democracy."

Click on the link below for a podcast expose of the organization that precipitated the radicalization of the Republican Party:

A gun industry insider perspective

The USA Is Devolving Into Fear And Ignorance

"Writer Anand Giridharadas discusses the recent stories of a young woman shot in New York after turning around in the wrong driveway and a Kansas City teen shot after ringing the wrong doorbell and what it says about our society."

Click on the link below for a video regarding the recent shootings of innocent people out of irrational fear and easy access to guns:

Anand Giridharadas: We aren't just dividing as a society, we are de-developing

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Another video

The Conservative Position On Firearms SHATTERED!!

THE 2nd AMENDMENT

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I have posted many times on the topic of gun control. However, I have never been exposed to what Jon Stewart recently did to a gun rights ideologue. Get your popcorn and click on the link below (watch through Brian Tyler Cohen's analysis):

Jon Stewart BREAKS THE INTERNET demolishing Republican TO HIS FACE

Reducing Gun Violence

"Today we take a look at some of the obvious steps we need to take to reduce gun violence in the United States, debunk some of the favored propaganda supporting unfettered gun ownership and explore the origins of how Gun Culture™ was invented by corporations as the frontier era need for guns began to vanish pushing them to convert guns from tools that were needed but not loved into items that were loved though no longer needed."

Click on the link below for a podcast presenting the history of guns in the USA and a science-based approach to mitigating gun violence:

Marketing, Messaging, and Mass Shootings

Suicide And Guns

"California, which has some of the nation’s lowest suicide rates, also has some of the nation’s toughest gun laws. Gun owners, for instance, must undergo background checks before buying ammunition, and authorities can temporarily seize the firearms of those deemed a danger to themselves or others."

California’s suicide rate is among America’s lowest – maybe because we control guns

 

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It's The Guns, Stupid

"Along with the usual thoughts and prayers, candlelight vigils and T-shirts proclaiming 'Santa Fe Strong,' there came, sure enough, a cabal of firearms-fetishizing public figures eager to blame anything, anything, anything except the most obvious thing: the ready availability of guns."

All other 1st World countries have all of the social negatives that the USA has, and yet:

(Humanosphere)

 

Can the USA admit it has been wrong?

Mass Shootings and Reality

This post is only for science-based thinkers. Others may carry on with harmful ideology.

5 things to know about mass shootings in America

 

Challenging The Lies Regarding Gun Control

This article challenges some common objections to reasonable gun control.  Oh, please note, the author is a Republican.

 

(Upfront - Scholastic)

One Reason Almost All Mass Shooters Are Male

Gun violence is not caused by one, or even a few, factors.  This article presents the case that how our society is raising its males should be getting greater scrutiny.

The Bill Of Rights

"The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the oftentimes bitter 1787–88 battle over ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and crafted to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically delegated to Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people."

Of Course It Is A Public Health Issue

It is more than about time to stand up to the NRA and the gun lobby.

AMA Decides Gun Violence is a Public Health Issue

The Best Retort To Unreasonable Gun Rights Advocates Ever

We Are Not Looking To Disarm You.