Gun Control Claims
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This is an analysis of four tropes of the anti gun-control / pro-gun lobby. I expect the comments will be a battleground for the “Great Culture Wars”, so let me be clear on my own position.
“Gun control is not gun prohibition, it is about preventing misuse of guns by criminals to hurt innocents.”The US President’s proposed gun policy, in 9 parts:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/preventing-gun-violenceVersailles Treaty, Article 169, which outlawed all arms and munitions in Germany prior to Hitler, including private arms:
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/versailles159-213.htmThe “Great Purge” of Stalin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_purgeBoston’s Project Ceasefire:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/188741.pdfState of Michigan’s Handgun Permit process:
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/publications/firearms.pdf
http://www.wikihow.com/Buy-a-Firearm-in-MichiganHow to get a driver’s license in Michigan:
http://www.dmv.org/mi-michigan/drivers-permits.phpThe correlation between guns and violence, at the Harvard School of Public Health:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/