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Rules for Discussing Guns

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I would say that’s pretty much got it. This one is particularly important:

Of course, it’s not wrong to say that calling for better gun control is “politicizing” the tragedy. The proper response to the charge is “your point being?” Why should gun violence be the only major social problem that cannot possibly be addressed with an appropriate political solution? One can argue against gun control on the merits, but the idea that responding to horrible events with policies that will make future horrible events less likely is somehow bad manners or something is absurd. And the fact that even overwhelmingly popular gun control policies generally can’t be passed before or after tragedies is also politics.

…it’s hard to see how someone with serious mental health issues being permitted to own a firearm could be a legitimate subject of political contestation.

Waldman: “And in truth, mass shootings are just a symptom of the disease. Twelve people were murdered at the Navy Yard yesterday, but in a typical day in America, about twice that number are killed with guns. It adds up to around 10,000 gun murders a year. We’ll move heaven and earth to counter even the slightest risk of a terrorist attack, but the ongoing gun carnage? That’s just the price of freedom.”

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