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Public Policy Brief
Our alternatives:
- Ban all assault weapons. One bill. With this. Or maybe we do a bill with a bunch of other stuff that appeal to Republican states/people? That's what made that Utah congresswoman budge on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. Anyway, there needs to be prework done on this effort. Ad campaigns on the word "assault." Paint the interest groups that oppose this in a very bad light. How are you going to be for "assault"? Propaganda machines - Twitter bots, pay TikTok political influencers and popular podcasters with Red audiences to be against ASSAULT rifles. They can be all for handguns but they must vehemently mock and scorn those with assault rifles. We will not have police going into private homes and seizing weapons. It will be a "from henceforth" and if someone is buying bullets, they have to be a liscensed owner. And if they're licensed, they have to go through regular check ups.
Policy 2: A crackdown on illegal and informal ways of receiving a gun. A "quiet control" of gun ownership. Briefly explain what a straw purchase. Explain how people say "we already have background checks" Show that you've done your research into these background checks and they're weak. Explain your idea for background checks. Comprehensive and repeated. Propose yearly so that they settle on every 3 years or something.
Policy 3: A crackdown on the illegal trafficking of guns. We will instill a federal statute that explicitly criminalizes interstate trafficking of firearms. My idea: if the gun is not registered in this state, then it's illegal. Make gun ownership a bit more of a hassle. Expand federal requirements so that every firearm transfer — including private sales, transfers at gun shows, and online sales — must be preceded by a background check. Current federal law only mandates background checks when the seller is a licensed firearms dealer.
Close the “private-sale” and “gun-show” loopholes that currently allow unlicensed sellers to transfer firearms without vetting buyers.Prohibit the unregulated manufacture, sale, or distribution of unserialized firearms (so-called “ghost guns”) and 3D-printed guns.
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Bardach's 8-fold path
Define the problem. The reason why we're vouching for a policy change.
Assemble some evidence: The data you've found that supports why this is a worthy problem to change policy over, *how policy has an effect on the negative situation at hand, and foreshadowing evidence on why your alternatives are good
List the numbers of deaths from gun violence. How long it has been going on. Avoid emotional lanuage. You are going to practice to use logical and 'cold' language.
Construct the Alternatives: List out at least 3 alternative courses of actions to our current situation. You will likely end up choosing a mix of two of the alternatives you've constructed, leaning more into one of them.
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I recognize that I'm not going to put an end to all non-hunting gun ownership. There are too many barriers in the way. Political, cultural, the power of the NRA, the fact that any Republican that even seems to want to restrict guns will likely lose their next election.
An effort to remove all non-hunting guns will mean an upheaval of American legislature and norm (punctuated equilibrium and lobbying). It would mean an upheaval of the culture in large parts of the country (perhaps half of the U.S) that HATES the idea of someone having power over them (government). Oh and I'm not sure if the omnibus bill way of doing things would be helpful or harmful to our cause.
While changing all of that may have its merits, the effort here is to limit unjust deaths by the gun. We may become lost if this project became about changing the nation. Because guns are held so dearly and tightly by American culture, removing guns will mean uprooting a part of America, and that is a tall, tall task. And people will always resist that.
So instead of removing guns and removing what feels like "rights", an effective gun control policy ensures that it doesn't feel like American culture or American political norms are being ripped away. It has to be slow and steady. We cannot rely on a focusing event like a terrible massacre because that happens frequently, and the country's outrage fades away. And this policy brief will outline the first steps in the project of improved gun control.
That is why our policy project proposal aims to ban assault rifles (not for its contribution in killings) but as a symbol. You can't argue that an assault rifle is for self defense. You wouldn't be taking away the right to bear arms either, because most gun owners own handguns and handguns are what are used in 80% of school shootings. But it's the implication of criminalizing assault rifles that is the point. We are curtailing the efficiency that spraying bullets with an assault rifle produces and banning something with the word, "assault" is great for campaigning. We're banning "assault".
Not only that, but we are making background checks far more thorough. Current background checks are far too weak and far too quick. With comprehensive background checks implemented for every year of ownership, we are not taking the right to bear arms away. But we are coming down hard on the suitability to own one. It's still your right, but you better pass this test.
Start with defining the problem, then providing evidence that the problem of gun violence is significant (and it's not just gang members), it's regular people being shot and school children. We need evidence of pointing to other countries similar to America in racial makeup, location, video games, glorification of violence and show that they are NOT getting killed by guns. Leave no doubt that guns are the issue.
At the end of the evidence gathering, we need evidence for the states that ban assault weapons have the least gun violence. Say this line, "gun policy matters and evidence shows that we CAN have some restrictions over this and that restrictions are effective.
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Will answer by use the questions in the screenshot. Will be easier and less daunting that way. Can edit later.
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