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What Conservatives Get Right About Guns
Gun policy expert Lois Beckett of the Guardian US explains the four things you need to know about firearms in America.
I grew up in Connecticut, firmly on one side of the gun culture war. My parents thought it was wrong even to let kids play with toy guns. But I made a vow to myself when I started covering this debate: I would not be one one of those New York City journalists who writes ignorant, condescending stories about “gun nuts.”
As it expanded into the United States, the liberal British newspaper The Guardian did something most media outlets haven’t done: it assigned a reporter to cover gun politics full-time, not just in the wake of the latest mass shooting. My job as The Guardian US’s gun reporter is to explore the big questions: Why do we struggle so much to fix America’s gun violence problem? What would it take to save more lives?
When I actually dug into the data, I was shocked by how little evidence there was behind some of the most prominent gun control policies. Here are some basic facts that gun rights advocates already know—and that liberals who want to reduce gun violence need to understand.
4 Things Conservatives Get Right About Guns
Gun policy expert Lois Beckett of the Guardian US explains the four things you need to know about firearms in America.
I grew up in Connecticut, firmly on one side of the gun culture war. My parents thought it was wrong even to let kids play with toy guns. But I made a vow to myself when I started covering this debate: I would not be one one of those New York City journalists who writes ignorant, condescending stories about “gun nuts.”
As it expanded into the United States, the liberal British newspaper The Guardian did something most media outlets haven’t done: it assigned a reporter to cover gun politics full-time, not just in the wake of the latest mass shooting. My job as The Guardian US’s gun reporter is to explore the big questions: Why do we struggle so much to fix America’s gun violence problem? What would it take to save more lives?
When I actually dug into the data, I was shocked by how little evidence there was behind some of the most prominent gun control policies. Here are some basic facts that gun rights advocates already know—and that liberals who want to reduce gun violence need to understand.
4 Things Conservatives Get Right About Guns