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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Five Lies The Gun Lobby Tells You" by Zack Beauchamp at Think Progress
Five Lies The Gun Lobby Tells Youby Zack Beauchamp at Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/14/1340531/five-lies-the-gun-lobby-tells-you/
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MYTH #1: More guns dont lead to more murders. A survey by researchers at the Harvard University School of Public Health found strong statistical support for the idea that, even if you control for poverty levels, more people die from gun homicides in areas with higher rates of gun ownership. And despite what gun advocates say, countries like Israel and Switzerland dont disprove the point.
MYTH #2: The Second Amendment prohibits strict gun control. While the Supreme Court ruled in D.C. v. Heller that bans on handgun ownership were unconstitutional, the ruling gives the state and federal governments a great deal of latitude to regulate that gun ownership as they choose. As the U.S. Second Court of Appeals put it in a recent ruling upholding a New York regulation, The states ability to regulate firearms and, for that matter, conduct, is qualitatively different in public than in the home. Heller reinforces this view. In striking D.C.s handgun ban, the Court stressed that banning usable handguns in the home is a policy choice[] that is off the table, but that a variety of other regulatory options remain available, including categorical bans on firearm possession in certain public locations.
MYTH #3: State-level gun controls havent worked. Scholars Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander recently studied state-to-state variation in gun homicide levels. They found that [f]irearm deaths are significantly lower in states with stricter gun control legislation. This is backed up by research on local gun control efforts and cross-border gun violence.
MYTH #4: We only need better enforcement of the laws we have, not new laws. In fact, Congress has passed several laws that cripple the ability for current gun regulations to be enforced the way that theyre supposed to. According to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, a series of federal laws referred to as the Tiahrt amendments limit public access to crime gun trace data, prohibit the use of gun trace data in hearings, pertaining to licensure of gun dealers and litigation against gun dealers, and restrict ATFs authority to require gun dealers to conduct a physical inventory of their firearms. Other federal laws limited the ATF compliance inspections and grant broad protections from lawsuits against firearm manufacturers and retail sellers.
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"Five Lies The Gun Lobby Tells You" by Zack Beauchamp at Think Progress (Original Post)
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Dec 2012
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(5,436 posts)1. The NRA
The NRA and its vast team of mindless parrots repeat their mountain of well-known and long-debunked lies without a shred of guilty feelings.