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Finding Solace and Light After the Gabby Giffords Tragedy

Dec 17, 2014 | Gun Control, Jewish Experiences, mic

Published: Good Men Project (December 17, 2014)

Matthew Rozsa meditates on what we lost when Gabby Giffords was shot … and what we can still hope for.

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It would be an understatement to say that I’m not an observant Jew. I don’t keep kosher, only periodically observe the High Holy Days, and didn’t even remember that it was Channukah until I saw this Facebook picture of former Rep.... Read Original Article

Gun Control Debate 2013: Republicans’ “Slippery Slope” Arguments Show An Ignorance Of History

Jun 8, 2013 | Gun Control, History, mic, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: mic (June 8, 2013)

In light of the recent ricin attacks on Barack Obama, Michael Bloomberg, and Mayors Against Illegal Guns, it is time for us to acknowledge an unavoidable reality:

When the slippery slope fallacy is applied to politics, the consequences can be dangerous.

As defined by the Nizkor Project (an organization dedicated to debunking Holocaust denial), a slippery slope argument is “a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question.”

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Bloomberg Ricin Attack: Don’t Overreact Just Yet

May 29, 2013 | Conservativism, Extremism, Gun Control, Liberalism, mic, Political Ideologies

Published: mic (May 29, 2013)

When an issue is as superheated as gun control, one can almost instinctively predict the reaction to news stories such as this one:

“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has received an anonymous threatening letter that preliminary tests indicated contained the presence of the poison ricin, law enforcement officials told NBC News.

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Colorado Passes Domestic Violence Gun Ban Law

Mar 30, 2013 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Gender and Sexism, Gun Control, mic

Published: mic (March 30, 2013)

One might hope that a law which keeps guns out of the hands of perpetrators of domestic violence would receive bipartisan support.

One would think.

As reported by the Huffington Post, “a Colorado bill that prohibits convicted domestic violence offenders from possessing firearms passed in the House Judiciary Committee on a 7-4 party line vote, with all Democrats approving the bill.”

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My Lifelong Struggle With Asperger’s Syndrome

Dec 17, 2012 | Asperger's Syndrome, Autobiographical, Gun Control, Mental Illness, mic

Published: PolicyMic (December 17, 2012)

ow am I supposed to begin an article describing what it’s like to be autistic?

I use the term “autistic” because, although I was officially diagnosed as a child with “high-functioning Asperger’s Syndrome,” the American Psychiatric Association recently voted to remove Asperger’s Syndrome as a separate classification and instead place it under the broader diagnostic umbrella known as the “autism spectrum disorder.”... Read Original Article