Gun Violence 
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SOURCE: NPR
11/9/2021
Secret NRA Tapes in Wake of Columbine Show Decision to Attack Critics for "Politicizing" Mass Shootings
The NRA faced a crossroads after the Columbine shootings in 1999. They chose a scorched-earth posture that has guided their response to every mass shooting incident since, documented in recordings of high-level strategy meetings.
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6/4/2021
Understanding Gun and Police Violence Lies Between History and Power
by Kwasi Konadu
Dealing effectively with gun violence and police violence requires recognizing they are connected by the long history of America's culture of force in defense of the social order. The National Gun Violence Awareness Day observed today should reflect this connection.
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
8/1/2020
96 Minutes
An oral history by witnesses and survivors of Charles Whitman's mass shooting at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966.
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10/18/2019
Understanding America's History Of Gun Control
by Samantha Benthien
As gun violence rates continue to increase, looking to America's history of gun control can provide insight into this polarized issue.
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August 11, 2019
Can the NRA Survive its Current Crisis?
by Robert J. Spitzer
The NRA is facing a serious crisis.
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8/11/19
We Must Stop Valuing Guns More Than People
by Greg Bailey
Fom garlic festivals to shopping malls, from schools and churches and synagogues, there is a darkness in the soul of America.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
August 6, 2019
The ‘warspeak’ permeating everyday language puts us all in the trenches
by Robert Myers
Cultural language can impact gun violence.
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6/23/19
We Need A Long-Arc Historical Perspective to Understand White Supremacist Extremist Violence.
by Eric V. Tait, Jr.
Much like today, in the early 1980s, people of color and the gains of the civil rights movement were increasingly under attack and many Americans wanted to “turn back the clock to an earlier era.”
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6/9/19
Political Corruption Underwrites America’s Gun-Control Nightmare
by Thom Hartmann
The story of the rich politician whose extreme corruption inspired the 17th Amendment--and how the Citizens United ruling allows money to rule politics once again.
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5/5/19
Run, Hide, Fight If You Must…Now What?
by David Lee McMullen
A history professor at UNC Charlotte reflects on the campus shooting last Tuesday.
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SOURCE: Snopes
3/28/18
Was the NRA Founded to Protect Black People from the Ku Klux Klan?
Revisionist accounts of the origin of the National Rifle Association say it was formed to help freed slaves defend themselves against racist attacks after the Civil War.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-27-18
Gun-control advocates believe their activism will mirror the fight for gay marriage. They’re wrong.
by James Kirchick
The better comparison is Prohibition — and we all know how that turned out.
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SOURCE: Politico
3-24-18
The Lessons of a School Shooting—in 1853
by Saul Cornell
How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-26-18
How the marches for gun control are like the protests against Vietnam
As in Vietnam, students have a stake in this fight.
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SOURCE: NYT
3-22-18
America Passed Gun Control in 1968. Can It Happen Again?
by Jason Sokol
The King and Kennedy assassinations spurred the passage of the Gun Control Act.
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3-14-18
We Shouldn’t Be Surprised that Young People Are Leading the Charge for Gun Control
by Bill Heiden
Most importantly, history shows that this kind of street action works.
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SOURCE: guns.com
3-13-18
Patrick J. Charles, author of a new book on guns, defends militia-centric understanding of Second Amendment
“There’s been people on both sides who’ve misappropriated historical evidence over time or failed to fully contextualize it.”
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-12-18
Jonathan Zimmerman says students should go on strike to win gun control
by Jonathan Zimmerman
West Virginia teachers won by striking. There’s a lesson in that.
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SOURCE: NYT
3-5-18
7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism
History is full of movements led by students — albeit usually in college, not high school. Some were successful and others brutally crushed, but even the latter still resonate.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-2-18
Before Trump’s wild shifts on the NRA, Ronald Reagan took on the gun lobby
On May 3, 1994, Ronald Reagan and two other former presidents sent a letter to House members, urging them to support a controversial ban on lethal, military-style assault weapons.
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