2. The gun debate is really a non-debate. Everyone knows the problem in USA is quantity of guns, their availability & their increasingly deadliness. Knowning that, the pro-gun side has no option but to deflect, distract, & verbally filibuster.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1530166003744776193 …
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3. The more sophisticated conservative arguments would be honesty about trade-offs (i.e. your dead kids are the price of our freedom to own guns) or some version of futility (sure, would've been good not to have guns is USA) but it's too late now
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4. The fact that this is a rhetorical filibuster rather than a true debate can be seen by the fact that the standard "good guys with guns" & "more security/cops" arguments still being made even though everything in latest atrocity gives them lie.
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5. Even before Uvalde, the "good guy with gun" argument ran counter to the evidence for one simple reason: many mass shooters are suicidal so the presence of armed resistance makes schools a more tempting target, not less. This paper is suggestive https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2776515 …
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6. Some more thoughts on the bankruptcy of the pro-gun arguments. And the political culture where the badness of ideas doesn't hamper their success.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/uvalde-shooting-delusion-nra/ …
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Well done, this is a very good tweet.
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The added benefit to less doors, is that fires could kill more kids so there will be less to kill with guns
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Stop talking about them. They give you the same wrong talking points and the media keeps printing them as if that is the solution. It sucks up all the oxygen in the space. Ask Democrats and print those solutions.
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