This week Captain Storm and Dangerous Dan explore the issue of: Gun Control in a two part podcast. This episode we arranged a tag team debate with four panelists:
Gun Leaning:
Retired Navy Commander, skeptic and author: Al Bell Gun industry professional: Matt Trujillo (tru-hee-oh)
Regulation Leaning:
Professional soccer mom and feisty skeptic: Diane Fortune
The greatest bow hunter in the valencia north valley homeowners association: Anna Maltese
Sources:
Science of measuring gun violence
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10881&page=19
Gun Control stats (regs, homicide rates, etc), country by country
http://www.gunpolicy.org/
Firearms by region
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/
U.S. Homicides by weapons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg
Police Executive Research Forum (local law enforcement initiatives)
http://www.policeforum.org/library/critical-issues-in-policing-series/GunsandCrime.pdf
Australian Gun Control Act (NYT article by Prime Minister Howard)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/opinion/australia-banned-assault-weapons-america-can-too.html?_r=0
Snopes.com fact-check on Australian Gun Control Act/GCA rumor:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp
Fact checking on Nazi gun control policy...
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/files/67-harcourt.pdf
Excellent discourse on Harcourt’s findings
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/stop_talking_about_hitler/
President's Executive Actions List on Gun Control
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/556894/white-house-gun-violence-reduction-executive.pdf
U.S. v. Miller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._v._Miller
National Firearms Act of 1934
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
Firearm Injury in the U.S.
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ficap/resourcebook/pdf/monograph.pdf
Legal Analysis of Second Amendment decisions by the Supreme Court
http://www.spectacle.org/996/2d.html
ATF history (1791 - present) and the challenges they face
http://cloudfront-2.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/11/12155/current-gun-debate-may-not-help-beleaguered-atf
Violence Policy Center, NRA corporate contributors list
http://www.vpc.org/press/1104blood.htm
NRA's bill riders denying funds for gun science
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/25/the_nras_war_on_gun_science/
NRA History and the Revolt in Cincinnati (very interesting read)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/achenblog/wp/2013/01/13/nra-history-the-making-of-the-gun-lobby/
Violence Policy Center on Women and Handguns
http://www.vpc.org/studies/myth.htm
Pediatricians and the NRA gag order
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/02/pediatricians_and_nra_physician_gag_rules_and_the_cdc_aca_and_states.html
Hidden Life of Guns Project (assault weapons ban, etc.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/22/AR2011012204243.html
Hospital shootings (guns taken from armed guards to use against others; 'good guy with gun will stop bad guy with a gun' counterargument data)
http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(12)01408-4/abstract
Excellent discourse on various gun related issues
http://factcheck.org/2012/12/gun-rhetoric-vs-gun-facts/
THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM: ZERO-GUN AMERICA
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/the-single-best-anti-gun-death-policy-ending-the-drug-war/266505/
2009 Murders http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/offenses/expanded_information/homicide.html GENERAL GUN FACTS ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE IN THE US http://factcheck.org/2012/12/gun-rhetoric-vs-gun-facts/
Original Intent and Purpose of the Second Amendment
http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndpur.html
Right of Self Defense
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_self-defense
Right to keep and bear arms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms
English precedent
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was heavily influenced by the English Bill of Rights 1689, which restricted the right of the English Crown to interfere with the personal right to bear arms.
District of Columbia v Heller
http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/50849/district-columbia-v-heller-scalias-majority-opinion/ed-whelan
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