For the past couple months, we've maintained a private spreadsheet of important active cases at the circuit court or Supreme Court level. Just realized it could be a useful community resource, because no similar snapshot seems to exist anywhere else. So it's now public at the link below. Anyone logged into Notion can comment — let us know if there are any cases or details we've missed.Second Amendment court cases to watch

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.

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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-15

The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin published an article on Christmas Eve, to argue that credit card companies should build models that take spending activity as input and return "probability that this customer is planning a mass shooting" as output.An excerpt from the crux of it:

A New York Times examination of mass shootings since the Virginia Tech attack in 2007 reveals how credit cards have become a crucial part of the planning of these massacres. There have been 13 shootings that killed 10 or more people in the last decade, and in at least eight of them, the killers financed their attacks using credit cards. Some used credit to acquire firearms they could not otherwise have afforded.Those eight shootings killed 217 people. The investigations undertaken in their aftermath uncovered a rich trove of information about the killers’ spending. There were plenty of red flags, if only someone were able to look for them, law enforcement experts say.

Sorkin is well-known for having used his NYT column in the weeks after the Parkland massacre to successfully lobby Citigroup and Bank of America to fire their business customers who sell standard-capacity magazines and other common touchstones. So people on all sides reacted predictably to his new article.