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Shots in the Dark
This week in Comment, Margaret Talbot looks at how gun-control measures are losing support in Congress and recommends that such legislation should be treated with urgency, despite the perceived political consequences: http://nyr.kr/Y3jEYI
Illustration by Tom Bachtell
(Source: newyorker.com)
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N.R.A. Defends Right to Own Politicians→
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, National Rifle Association C.E.O. Wayne LaPierre warned that the N.R.A. would vigorously oppose any legislation that “limits the sale, purchase, or ownership of politicians.” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/TWxfog
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Let's Get to the Facts to Reduce Gun Violence→
Gun control is a subject unfortunately “plagued by misinformation & ignorance”. Here John Cassidy looks at the facts: http://nyr.kr/XJkCdk
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"Good and great causes don’t advance without resistance. First the thing is impossible, then improbable, then unsatisfactorily achieved, then quietly improved, until one day it is actual and uncontroversial. So it was with putting military weapons into the hands of openly homosexual soldiers, and so it shall be with taking military weapons out of the hands of crazy people. It starts off impossible and it ends up done."
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"Despite widespread support for the Second Amendment, the latest opinion polls show healthy majorities favoring all three of the Administration’s legislative proposals… Unfortunately, there isn’t anything in the U.S. system that allows the moderate majority to exert its will on an ongoing basis. Nothing except public outrage, and its cumulative impact on the spineless hordes up on Capitol Hill."
— John Cassidy on Obama’s gun control plan, and whether he can beat the system on gun control, with the help of Grace McDonnell: http://nyr.kr/X9hmW2 -
Can Biden Stop the Shooting?→
Alex Koppelman on the limits of what Biden’s task force will be able to accomplish: http://nyr.kr/ZPrASm
Photograph by Mark Wilson/Getty.
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Back to School: Do We Still Remember Sandy Hook?
Amy Davidson asks, as Sandy Hook’s children go back to school, are we losing our focus on what we need to do about guns? Click-through to read: http://nyr.kr/Una3Kr
Photograph by Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty.
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The Simple Truth About Gun Control
There are complex, hand-wringing-worthy problems in our social life: deficits and debts and climate change. Gun violence, and the work of eliminating gun massacres in schools and movie houses and the like, is not one of them. Gun control works on gun violence as surely as antibiotics do on bacterial infections…
Adam Gopnik on gun control: http://nyr.kr/VQOKAo
Photograph by Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times/Redux.
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"Anything is possible, especially in the wake of something like the Newtown shooting, but it’s difficult to see the political calculus that leads to a few dozen Republicans switching sides on this."
— Alex Koppelman asks if gun control can make it through Congress: http://nyr.kr/ZQUlxy(Source: newyorker.com)
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"Rather than passing the initiative to his deputy, couldn’t a politician who had just been named as Time’s Person of the Year (for the second time) have established his own leadership and ownership on this issue?"
— John Cassidy on Obama’s decision to pass gun control to Biden: http://nyr.kr/UFcbOh(Source: newyorker.com)
