I really vacillated on whether to post this story or not on facebook, just because the gun issue is such a loser on all counts. The author has good credentials as an American history professor who actually specializes on the history of guns, legal issues surrounding them, and the state of contemporary academic analysis on guns. However, this article jumps around too much to focus on any of these areas. The economic reframing he suggests would be attacked just as vociferously as the taxation of cigarettes, by many of the same people but with the huge dollars of the NRA behind it. However, it was interesting that after reading all the "spoons don't make you fat" statuses, that he brought up the sloganeering used by gun supporters. I guess "I don't want cuckoos to shoot me" doesn't make a very good bumper sticker.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/01/15/saul_cornell_guns/index.html
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