Las Vegas shooting

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-15-17
  

  Five types of gun laws the Founding Fathers loved

  by Saul Cornell

  The Second Amendment is one of the most frequently cited provisions in the American Constitution, but also one of the most poorly understood.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-9-17
  

  How the US government created and coddled the gun industry

  by Brian DeLay

  The gun lobby has succeeded by promoting an ingenious illusion. It has framed government as the enemy of the gun business rather than its indispensable historic patron.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  10-9-17
  

  White House Calls Out Las Vegas Professor for Saying After Mass Shooting That Trump's Election Incited Violence

  Tessa Winkelmann told her history class that she predicted Trump’s election would lead to death. She’s now apologized.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  10-3-17
  

  Gun Anarchy and the Unfree State

  by Saul Cornell

  The real history of the Second Amendment.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  10-3-17
  

  Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because They Don’t Count Black Lives

  The black website The Root objects that the media are ignoring the long string of incidents in which blacks were slaughtered.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  10-3-17
  

  26 Gun murders (equiv. 130) in England vs. *11,004* in US Annually

  by Juan Cole

  The United States continues to be peculiar in handing out powerful magazine-fed firearms to almost anyone who wants one and not requiring background checks on private purchases even if these are made at gun shows or by persons with a history of mental illness.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  10-2-17
  

  Is Las Vegas the worst mass shooting in US history? It’s surprisingly complicated.

  It depends on what counts as a mass shooting — and the typical definition leaves out some pretty bad attacks.