Guns R Us
Top Story: Gun Country
No one is immune.
Shootings last week dominated the news. To feel safe on a beach, in an unlocked campus building, at a nightclub, inside a kindergarten classroom or walking through the lobby of a NYC office building is to deny reality. You are not safe. And neither are the people you love.
At Reporting Right, we hope you will find ways to tell that story by focusing on solutions: steps communities can take to make everyone safer.
Protective gun legislation
Military-grade weapon bans
Red flag laws
Better safety protocols in public and private spaces
TIPS ON COVERING GUN VIOLENCE
Highlight leaders who are working for legislation that offers everyone better protection
Report on ballot initiatives that have allowed communities to defang gun lobbyists and pro-gun donors by voting for changes they want, after devastating local shootings
Tell stories about what these shootings are doing to young people
Name names. Call out electeds who are hurting, not helping
Get specific. People want — and need — to know how other communities have fought this.
RESOURCES
READ: THE NEW YORKER ON HOW THE NRA WENT FROM GUN CLUB TO GUN LOBBYING GROUP
READ: THE GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVES
READ: ROLLING STONE ON MAKING GUN-BUYING A HABIT
READ: THE NEW YORKER ON HOW LOBBYING GROUPS DO THAT
MORE INFORMATION
Understand how violence, rage, racism and guns converge in America.
Avoid terms the NRA came up with. “Gun-rights” is one of them. It was drummed up by gun-sellers to normalize military-grade weapons in our neighborhoods.
The NRA and other gun-rights groups pay politicians to support their industry. Make sure you understand how this works and report on the industries funding pro-gun candidates.
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Alex Aronson, executive director of Court Accountability
David Armiak, research director for the Center for Media and Democracy
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Maurice Cunningham, retired associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and author of Dark Money and The Politics of School Privatization.
Isaac Kamola, associate professor of political science at Trinity College, founder of Faculty First Responders and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe distinguished professor of history and public policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Ralph Wilson, founder of the Corporate Genome Project and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
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