These aren't worthy questions and only make the questioner appear foolish. Excited to hear Rep Lee talk - making this appropriately about disparities.
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Data thanks to Garen Wintemute - a hero of gun violence research.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/17/guns-are-now-killing-as-many-people-as-cars-in-the-u-s/?utm_term=.e2ab04bbc33a …
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This is what we should be able to do with another inanimate object, through smart policy, and without banning the object. We didn't achieve this by banning cars. Representative Bustos then mentions there is a current active shooter in her district.pic.twitter.com/cwhuvv2TjJ
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In closing comments they keep saying we can keep the Dickey amendment as a "guardrail" yet it acts as a ban. No one wants to risk the funding of their entire institution over subjective criteria that your research appears to support gun control. Dickey himself regretted it.
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It's not a guardrail, it's a cage, for 25 years it has acted as a cage. It won't stop acting like a cage because they rename it a guardrail.
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The ranking member again brings up Mexico as an example of gun control not working. Mexico's gun problem is trafficking from the US. It turns out, your neighbors bad policy affects you, both across international borders and across state borders. That's what trafficking is.
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Just look at the ATF trace data from Mexico, these guns are coming from *here* 70% are sourced to US manufacturers. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/report/firearms-trace-data-mexico-cy-11-16pdf/download …
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Enough of this. It's very upsetting to see legitimate academics have to share a table with a hack like Lott. The committee did a poor job, and the other panelists a reasonable job of countering the disinfo, but he still provides cover for the "do nothing" "no problem" liars.
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