The Inevitability Argument: Why Conservatives Love It, And Why That’s Just...
The Way Things Are “What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are” –Epictetus Claims that problems are inevitable, or that attempts to resolve problems will...
View ArticleDebunking the Five Most Important Myths About Gun Control
1. More Guns, Less Crime In response to John R. Lott’s book “More Guns, Less Crime,” a sixteen-member panel of the United States Research Council convened in 2004 to address the relationship between...
View ArticleHaving a Gun in the House Doesn’t Make a Woman Safer
Apologies for the long delay between posts. I was working on getting an article published in the Atlantic, and it got through today! Read the latest article here:...
View ArticleMore Guns, More Suicides – The Vicious Relationship
I had a column over at the HuffingtonPost on the relationship between Guns and Suicides. It is reproduced below with two quick rebuttals that have been made in the comments section there. Suicide...
View ArticleDo We Have a Gang Problem or a Gun Problem?
Hey friends, Devin and I just published an article over at the HuffingtonPost. It has been reproduced below. Guns, Not Gangs In a scathing critique of ABC’s recent report “Young Guns,” Dana Loesch...
View ArticleGuns and Children: A Tragic Combination
I have a new article out in Slate Magazine, one of the most shared columns in the last several months. It is reproduced below. Co-authored with Devin Hughes Caroline Sparks was 2 years old. Her...
View ArticleGun Control and the Evolving Second Amendment
By: Devin Hughes In The Second Amendment: A Biography, Michael Waldman, President of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, provides a detailed yet highly accessible examination of the...
View ArticleGood Guys Without Guns Thwart French Train Shooter, Validate Data
Note – This article originally appeared in The Trace on August 25th Late last Friday afternoon on a train bound for Paris, a man armed with an AK-47, Luger pistol, and a box-cutter opened fire after...
View ArticleMore Guns, More Suicides: Why Suicide Prevention Depends Upon Gun Restrictions
Note: This article originally appeared in The Trace on September 16th, 2015 Last week the Brady Campaign released an extensively researched report titled “The Truth About Guns & Suicide,”...
View ArticleThree common-sense solutions to gun violence
Note: this column originally appeared in the Washington Post on October 15th, 2015 In the wake of yet another mass shooting, this time at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., conservative...
View ArticleHarvard Study Embraced by Gun Rights Advocates Is Neither a “Study,” Nor From...
In the wake of the Oregon college shooting, the website beliefnet.com caused a stir on social media with an article titled “Harvard University Study Reveals Astonishing Link Between Firearms, Crime and...
View ArticleA Thanksgiving-Edition Cliff Notes Guide to the Gun Debate
Thanksgiving is a time to eat, drink, and, inevitably, fall into heartburn-inducing arguments with family members over politically charged topics. When the topic on the table (as it were) is gun...
View ArticleWhy I Want Crooks to Know That My House Is a Gun-Free Zone
Forced to choose, would you rather have a sign in your front yard announcing you are a proud gun owner, or one that your home is a gun-free zone? For gun advocates, the choice is obvious: As...
View ArticleGuns as a Defense Against Terrorists? The Stats Say Otherwise
Two weeks ago on CBS’s Face the Nation, GOP presidential contender Marco Rubio boasted about purchasing a handgun on Christmas Eve. When asked why he had bought the weapon, the Senator from Florida...
View ArticleDebunking Alternative Facts About Gun Violence
Devin Hughes and Jen Pauliukonis devin@gvpedia.org and jen@mdpgv.org Alternative facts. Fake news. Post-truth. America seems to be awash in misinformation. Perhaps in no other space is this deception...
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