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POTUS tweet yesterday:

artappraiser — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 16:48:05 +0000

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POTUS tweet yesterday:

Gun violence in this country is an epidemic — and it’s long past time Congress take action.
— President Biden (@POTUS) April 10, 2021

Fred Guttenberg, father of

artappraiser — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 22:16:26 +0000

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Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland victim Jaime Guttenberg, on CNN: "Since my daughter was killed, I feel like we've been on this freight train moving rapidly in the wrong direction on this issue. And I feel like President Biden just slammed the brakes on that freight train."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 9, 2021

Daniel Dale has fact check

artappraiser — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 21:19:47 +0000

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Daniel Dale has fact check quibble about what Biden said today:

Biden was wrong when he said today that gunmakers are the only big industry that "can't be sued." 1) They are immune from liability over unlawful misuse of guns, but can be and have been sued on other grounds. 2) They aren't the only big industry with some liability protection.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 8, 2021

In 2019, the Supreme Court declined to reject a lawsuit filed against a gun manufacturer by families of Sandy Hook victims. https://t.co/A87bu476ao That lawsuit went after a gunmaker's marketing practices, one of the grounds on which they do face liability.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 8, 2021

Might have more coming, as those two tweets were only a few minutes ago...

President Biden, in his first

artappraiser — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:35:41 +0000

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President Biden, in his first gun control measures since taking office, announced a half-dozen executive actions Thursday aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the nation that he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment.”https://t.co/tMEYFQs8W3
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) April 8, 2021

President Biden calls on Congress to enact a number of gun reforms including:
1) Ban assault weapons
2) Eliminate gun manufacture immunity
3) Require background checks for guns bought at gun shows
3) Close “Charleston loophole”
4) Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 8, 2021

“Gun violence in this country is an epidemic and it’s an international embarrassment”

US President Joe Biden outlines a set of measures to tackle gun violencehttps://t.co/bsJQhu7vB4 pic.twitter.com/NhIGqVC4Og
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 8, 2021

In remarks on gun violence, Pres. Biden decries "the psychological damage done on the children who live in these cities watching this happen, knowing someone it happened to.” https://t.co/EWPcEq5VY5 pic.twitter.com/CcB0RBgkhy
— ABC News (@ABC) April 8, 2021

NEW: Biden formally nominates David Chipman, a former special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as @ATFHQ chief.

Chipman, a 25-year veteran of the agency, has recently served as policy director for @GiffordsCourage, a gun control organization pic.twitter.com/ialHxwMKKq
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) April 8, 2021

AG Merrick Garland explains how the DOJ will take on gun violence: ‘[Gun violence] is a problem that we must all work on together in a collective effort to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and save lives’ pic.twitter.com/GC36SnJcwX
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 8, 2021

I Helped Lead the Gun Control

artappraiser — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:24:59 +0000

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I Helped Lead the Gun Control Movement. It’s Asking the Wrong Questions. (why an assault weapons ban is the stupid)

A campaign galvanized by mass shootings and assault weapons will inevitably find itself in a dead end. But there’s a way out.

By Dan Gross @ NYTimes.com, April 8. Mr. Gross was the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence from 2012 to 2017 and is co-founder of the Center for Gun Rights and Responsibility.

[....] Though it does not grab national headlines, the daily toll of gun deaths and injuries is just as horrifying as our mass shootings, and more preventable as a matter of policy. The gun control movement should focus on the deaths and injuries that are most common, rather than be galvanized by mass shootings like the one that put my brother in a coma.

Of the nearly 40,000 deaths involving guns in 2019, well under 1 percent were caused by what the F.B.I. defines as “active shooter” incidents. In an average year, around 60 percent of deaths involving guns are suicides and upward of 30 percent are homicides that don’t meet the “active shooter” definition, like episodes of domestic and gang violence. Even unintentional shootings (about 1 percent of the total) outnumber mass shootings.

There are far more effective means to prevent these sadly routine tragedies than by focusing on assault weapons. And that means that it is both wrong and counterproductive for advocacy organizations and elected leaders to use the moments when the public is focused on gun control to push an assault weapons ban.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t disagree with the intent of an assault weapons ban. I led the organization that before my tenure as president helped to pass the 1994 federal ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004, and I believe there is no place in civilized society for guns that are made for the express purpose of killing people.

But the fact is that if one were to objectively list solutions based purely on how much they would lower the number of gun deaths in our country, an assault weapons ban would not be high on the list.

When an assault weapons ban is debated, the conversation inevitably becomes a technical and confusing one. While there is no standard definition of an “assault weapon,” much of the focus in the wake of mass shootings is on semiautomatic AR-15 style rifles. Yet most mass shootings, like most gun fatalities in this country, are committed with handguns.

As important, though, the name of the policy includes the word “ban.” Gun control supporters like to mention the backing of “the overwhelming majority of gun owners” for “common-sense policies.” But calling for a ban of any sort just makes it easy for opposing politicians and organizations to cast anyone seeking policy change as a “gun grabber” seeking to take away the Second Amendment rights of responsible and law-abiding gun owners.

To create real and lasting change, we must end the culture war over guns. Instead, gun control groups are helping to perpetuate it.

No decent human being, whether gun owner or not, wants to live in a country with our level of shooting deaths. The most meaningful way to deal with the problem, though, is not to look at how to keep certain guns from all people, but how to keep all guns from certain people — the people almost all of us agree should not have guns.

I have spent the last two years building relationships with leaders in the gun rights community, and have found that this framing leads us to common ground. And it points to five specific moves that together would have an enormous impact:

Vigorously pursue and prosecute the small percentage of gun dealers who are knowingly contributing to the illegal gun trade (a trade that is disproportionately hurting communities of color).

Identify opportunities to strengthen the background check system by adding prohibited purchasers that we all, including 90 percent of gun owners, agree should not have guns. For instance, federal rules governing privacy for health records could be modified to allow mental health clinicians to identify those who are a threat to themselves or others, so that they could be temporarily added to the National Instant Check System. This would have to include exemptions for private sales that may make some gun control supporters uncomfortable; but in the end, in combination with the other measures listed here, it would result in a significant improvement to public safety.

Invest in a large-scale education and awareness campaign on the dangers of owning and carrying guns, and what can be done to mitigate those dangers. It is crucial that these efforts be led in partnership with gun rights groups and public health experts and that they remain free from any judgment about gun ownership or connection with political advocacy. There are many initiatives already, such as public education about the warning signs of mental illness and suicide, which have proven effective and could be models.

Expand on the work of “violence interrupters” and similar programs proven to reduce gun violence in cities.

Clearly define what it means to be a federally licensed firearm dealer, with standards that include sales volume. For years, gun control groups have talked about closing the “gun show loophole.” The real problem is not specifically gun shows, it is people who are regularly selling multiple guns to strangers, regardless of the venue, without being required to conduct the same background check that a federally licensed dealer must. Not only does this clearly contribute to straw-man purchasing and gun trafficking, it puts honest dealers at a competitive disadvantage.

When I was considered a leader in the gun control movement, a lot of attention was paid by other groups on how to “rebrand” the pursuit of preventing gun deaths: “Gun control?” “Gun violence prevention?” “Gun safety?”

As a former advertising executive myself, I always found this conversation superficial and frustrating. It takes more than a name and talking points to shape perceptions of any brand, no less such an important social issue. It takes a fundamental truth, a deep empathy for the people you are trying to reach and a disciplined focus on reinforcing that truth with everything you do and say.

The truth is, an assault weapons ban is not the most effective thing we can do to prevent gun violence, and the resulting debate undermines the extent to which the American public agrees on solutions that could bring us closer to what we all want, which is to make our homes, schools and communities safer.

STATEMENT

artappraiser — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 07:41:48 +0000

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STATEMENT

.@erichmpratt: "GOA will spare no expense to defeat Biden’s tyrannical agenda and will rally gun owners and Second Amendment supporters nationwide to defend the right to keep and bear arms."

Read more ⤵️https://t.co/aj5tNtKONq
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) April 8, 2021

Biden to unveil long-awaited

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:32:00 +0000

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Biden to unveil long-awaited executive action on guns tomorrow. Garland expected to attend. ⁦@anitakumar01⁩ w/ the NEWS. https://t.co/Vssfcfhm1z
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) April 7, 2021

We can find real solutions to

artappraiser — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:05:48 +0000

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We can find real solutions to gun violence if we recognize the trauma it causes. By Madison Armstrong and Jennifer Carlson Ms. Armstrong and Dr. Carlson research gun violence, gun policy and gun culture. Dr. Carlson is the author of “Policing the Second Amendment” and “Citizen-Protectors.”

"While gun trauma most certainly shapes the aftermath of shootings, it also shapes our day-to-day decisions and sensibilities far beyond specific acts of gun violence," write @jdawncarlson and Madison Armstrong. https://t.co/G8R7v3dxNW nytopinion
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) March 27, 2021

I agree, and it's almost an

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 05:12:39 +0000

In reply to On the level of hand guns,

I agree, and it's almost an important ideological position as to "common good" about what the nation is to be. (Hence, the quick decision to ban in other countries after one mass shooting event)

At the same time, it's not solving much on a practical level. And again, I think much very difficult-to-repair damage has been done over this past summer already. Tons more handguns out there now that can be traded illegally via person-to-person sales even if the gunshow loophole is closed.

Police forces have a real hard time confiscating those being used by people without a license even if we should be so lucky as to enact national licensing, which we won't. It's a gnarly thing Bloomberg and his group worked a lot on, especially as he learned as mayor that the problem in NYC was illegal handguns coming in across state lines.

They're out there now, and they'll last a long time. I despaired every time I read an article citing an increase in gun sales during the height of BLM protests. The resulting shootings will be with us a very long time. Look, good people will be the first ones to give them up if they decide they don't need them anymore, and more bad people will get them. And cops can't confiscate until they are already used (hence trying to confiscate them with things like "stop and frisk")

We're doomed to be a handgun-riddled society for a long time, and I for one do blame BLM-related riots and looting as increasing that situation a great deal. After all, buying a handgun is a rational thing to do when there are massive protests that support defunding police, even if they were 100% peaceful, which they weren't.

Views on gun laws after

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 04:53:46 +0000

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Views on gun laws after Atlanta, Boulder show even deeper divide https://t.co/Cdq2tP7qMF
— Journal Sentinel (@journalsentinel) March 25, 2021