This week Captain Storm and Dangerous Dan explore the issue of:  Gun Control in a two part podcast.  This episode we arranged a tag team debate with four panelists:

Gun Leaning:

Retired Navy Commander, skeptic and author: Al Bell Gun industry professional: Matt Trujillo (tru-hee-oh)



Regulation Leaning:

Professional soccer mom and feisty skeptic: Diane Fortune

The greatest bow hunter in the valencia north valley homeowners association: Anna Maltese



Sources:

Science of measuring gun violence

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10881&page=19

Gun Control stats (regs, homicide rates, etc), country by country

http://www.gunpolicy.org/

Firearms by region

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/

U.S. Homicides by weapons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg

Police Executive Research Forum (local law enforcement initiatives)

http://www.policeforum.org/library/critical-issues-in-policing-series/GunsandCrime.pdf

Australian Gun Control Act (NYT article by Prime Minister Howard)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/opinion/australia-banned-assault-weapons-america-can-too.html?_r=0

Snopes.com fact-check on Australian Gun Control Act/GCA rumor:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp

Fact checking on Nazi gun control policy...

http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/files/67-harcourt.pdf

Excellent discourse on Harcourt’s findings

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/stop_talking_about_hitler/

President's Executive Actions List on Gun Control

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/556894/white-house-gun-violence-reduction-executive.pdf

U.S. v. Miller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._v._Miller

National Firearms Act of 1934

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act

Firearm Injury in the U.S.

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ficap/resourcebook/pdf/monograph.pdf

Legal Analysis of Second Amendment decisions by the Supreme Court

http://www.spectacle.org/996/2d.html

ATF history (1791 - present) and the challenges they face

http://cloudfront-2.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/11/12155/current-gun-debate-may-not-help-beleaguered-atf

Violence Policy Center, NRA corporate contributors list

http://www.vpc.org/press/1104blood.htm

NRA's bill riders denying funds for gun science

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/25/the_nras_war_on_gun_science/

NRA History and the Revolt in Cincinnati (very interesting read)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/achenblog/wp/2013/01/13/nra-history-the-making-of-the-gun-lobby/

Violence Policy Center on Women and Handguns

http://www.vpc.org/studies/myth.htm

Pediatricians and the NRA gag order

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/02/pediatricians_and_nra_physician_gag_rules_and_the_cdc_aca_and_states.html

Hidden Life of Guns Project (assault weapons ban, etc.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/22/AR2011012204243.html

Hospital shootings (guns taken from armed guards to use against others; 'good guy with gun will stop bad guy with a gun' counterargument data)

http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(12)01408-4/abstract



















Excellent discourse on various gun related issues

http://factcheck.org/2012/12/gun-rhetoric-vs-gun-facts/

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM: ZERO-GUN AMERICA

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/the-single-best-anti-gun-death-policy-ending-the-drug-war/266505/




2009 Murders http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/offenses/expanded_information/homicide.html GENERAL GUN FACTS ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE IN THE US http://factcheck.org/2012/12/gun-rhetoric-vs-gun-facts/
Original Intent and Purpose of the Second Amendment
http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndpur.html

Right of Self Defense

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_self-defense
Right to keep and bear arms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms
English precedent
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was heavily influenced by the English Bill of Rights 1689, which restricted the right of the English Crown to interfere with the personal right to bear arms.

District of Columbia v Heller

http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/50849/district-columbia-v-heller-scalias-majority-opinion/ed-whelan