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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 25

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Andrew Lawrence

      Carlson says: "There are more guns in this country than there are people. There always have been." This is untrue: more guns than people only started in 2008, with election of Obama (perhaps not accidentally)https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1529615750566141952 …

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      Tucker Carlson threatens "civil war" over gun control pic.twitter.com/wuNh6sAmVN
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 25

      Pretty striking how gun buying jumped sharply after a Black man was elected president.pic.twitter.com/ndwI0Mxk6I

      6:15 PM - 25 May 2022
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        1. karuna timkova‏ @karunatimkova May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller …

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        2. Vance Maverick‏ @vance_maverick May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          While I don't dispute the point, the graph looks suspiciously clean -- straight lines before and after the inflection point.

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        3. PeopleAreNifty‏ @AreNifty May 25
          Replying to @vance_maverick @HeerJeet

          gun buying goes up anytime there is a nebulous fear of regulation I think the counterfactual where a white dem got elected in 2008 is maybe slightly different - but not much

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        2. (((bonedoc)))‏ @sharounporat May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Speaking of black men and gun buying. If a large number of black men were to go on a very public gun buying spree, I'm sure some gun laws would get passed

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        1. Joseph R Reagan‏ @JosephRReagan May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Really adds evidence to the idea that Trump (or someone like him) was a white backlash and inevitable.

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        2. SnozzBerry Gordy‏ @thembithembi May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Almost as if this country’s gun obsession is rooted in its fear of black people

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        3. Brian Smith‏ @GreenHombre May 25
          Replying to @thembithembi

          Teacher, why did we invent police? - Um, can't really talk about that in class in this state, Sally.

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        1. Saguaro Tiger‏ @KateEGrey May 25
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          Coincidence? I think not.

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        1. Erik 楚冰冰‏ @eriktruedson May 25
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          even 1996 levels would put us like 200 million over second place

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