Tag Archives: Newtown

04.17.13
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How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? (2013)

TITLE: How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? (2013)
SOURCE: Slate
LINK: http://slate.me/UMgcQS
AUTHORS: Chris Kirk & Dan Kois

ArtGraphic

NOTES: Interactive map & data set, with filters for Age, Gender, Location, Date, showing all gun deaths since Newtown Massacre.

TWEETS: (1) https://twitter.com/hospiceman/status/304760144040972288 (2) via @AndreiNikit https://twitter.com/AndreiNikit/status/340449052934144001 (compared to Americans killed in Iraq)

12.16.12
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The Freedom of an Armed Society (2012)

TITLE: The Freedom of an Armed Society (2012)
SOURCE: New York Times
AUTHOR: Firmin Debrabander
LINK: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/the-freedom-of-an-armed-society/

NOTES: Uses logic to rebut NRA argument that ‘an armed society is a polite society.’ Some personal anecdotes, post-Newtown. Also rebuts idea that armed populace protects against despotic government.

TWEETS: https://twitter.com/hospiceman/status/304769806719143937