Second-order thinking about gun rights: handy articles and videos

For the familiar points of disagreement, most people (on all sides) resort to first-order thinking and low-effort culture war agitprop. That provides short-term validation, but it doesn't spread knowledge and it's not persuasive to those who disagree.To persuade and to get smarter ourselves, it's important to focus on systems-level thinking. Here's a list of highly shareable, high-quality answers to the issues that frequently come up around gun rights.

Articles

The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun RightsEverybody’s Lying About the Link Between Gun Ownership and Homicide, and the rest of BJ Campbell's gun seriesA Guardian study showing that murders in the US are extremely concentrated to specific areas and demographics, which suffer under rates of violence an order of magnitude higher than the medianWhy I "Need" an AR-15Confessions of a Progressive Gun NutThe Path Forward on Guns, and its explanatory Twitter thread

Videos

Alan Korwin answering the question "Why do you need an AR-15?"[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6o-xjOhnIs]Korwin also level-headedly addresses the subtle inherent flaws with the idea of gun registration (he doesn't use the term "base rate neglect", but nicely encapsulates the concept):[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxkP9sUrULs?start=207]The Feed, "Gays & Guns":[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z55jnzlBSzs]BuzzFeed, "Grandmas Shoot Guns for the First Time":[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm7vTrhcIcM]Keanu Reeves at the range:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpr8oqyjKIc]