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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 27

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Aaron Rupar

      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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      Aaron RuparVerified account @atrupar
      Asked what his plan is to keep schools safe, Kevin McCarthy says schools should be able to repurpose Covid funds to reduce doors. #DoorControl pic.twitter.com/ygI3ozq8Ol
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 27

      Jeet Heer Retweeted b-boy bouiebaisse

      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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      b-boy bouiebaisseVerified account @jbouie
      people just be saying anything to avoid the obvious conclusion that it is the sheer quantity of guns and ease of acquiring them that is the issue
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 27

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 27

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 27

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 27

          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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        1. mspaint skull‏ @WordOfZac May 27
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          The second argument is void because it means it’s ok to go after manufacturers

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        1. Dierk Groeneman‏ @amish_hooligan May 27
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          Small things like hardened access to schools and red flag laws might actually find support on the GOP side. If we ridicule small changes we might end up with no changes at all.

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