1. The fact GOP's "solutions" to mass shootings grow ever more absurd (reducing doors has become a consensus talking point) is symptomatic of the gun lobby's combination of intellectual bankruptcy & political dominance. They have what they want, so don't need good argumentshttps://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1530184420371709952 …
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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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This is it in a nutshell. We need to keep the pressure on.
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Absolutely correct.
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I heard someone call the door discourse "rhetorical chaff" and it's a great analogy. Just total nonsense thrown out as a distraction; no need to engage with it
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That's half of the problems. There's still a problem of why shooters, often teens themselves, decide to go kill school kids at rates not seen in other nations.
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I will offer this hypothesis about Uvalde. The shooter, according to family, was bullied AT SCHOOL, and became introverted. He identified that place with the things he hated and saw in kids that which he believed responsible for the origin of his demise.
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It's a more than just that. It's a courage problem. Do GOP'ers that have an existential tie to guns guns guns speak out against them to save lives or rattle on about doors and arming teachers in order to ride guns guns guns to reelection. I think we've seen the answer.
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