By creating a narrative that outlines a pending threat to the group, the illiberal leader is able to manipulate that group and gain political power. We shall not allow it [Brussels] to force upon us the bitter fruit of its cosmopolitan immigration policy. We shall not import to Hungary crime, terrorism, homophobia, and synagogue-burning anti-Semitism. There shall be no urban districts beyond the reach of the law, there shall be no mass disorder or immigrant riots here, and there shall be no gangs hunting down our women and daughters.
To perpetuate the fears embedded in the narrative, leaders of the political party—along with designated surrogates from different parts of society, including civil society, media, and academia—are used to emphasize the threats facing the chosen populace. In , for example, the European University at St. Petersburg, a private liberal arts college, had its teaching license revoked and was temporarily shuttered by Putin under the guise of failing to meet bizarre bureaucratic requirements.
Criticism is viewed as a form of treachery and a threat to the survival of the core identity the leader is claiming to protect. The situation in the Philippines again provides an example. Collectively, these tactics are regularly implemented in illiberal nations whose leadership is focused on stifling debate, with the extreme methods resulting in crackdowns on political rights and civil liberties in order to suppress a nation into submission.
This technique of controlling information around key policies has been successfully used by authoritarians and populists throughout the world. While the NRA is certainly not seeking complete control over a political system, a comparison to the messaging tactics of autocrats is still instructive, as the group is seeking to retain and maintain political power in order to challenge a growing movement to strengthen gun laws.
Therefore, the gun rights organization has needed to build a narrative capable of countering the realities of gun violence and the overwhelming evidence that weak gun laws are causing a public health crisis in the United States. Constitution—chief among them the right to bear arms. One existential crisis is represented by the security threats constantly facing the American patriot. This ostensible need to possess a firearm for self-preservation is connected to another existential crisis the NRA has constructed: The NRA has consistently undercut advocates for gun violence prevention and common-sense legislation in order to maintain power over the narrative.
To achieve this goal, the NRA has turned its political opposition into an anti-American enemy poised to seize guns and suppress freedoms through its anti-gun agenda. They are not.
They ought to call themselves what they really are: the vanguard of the disarm America movement. No 2nd Amendment, no individual freedom, no civilian ownership of firearms period.
The threats from many on the Left are turning to violence and intimidation. While we try to fight fair with truth on our side, the Left uses a win-at-all-costs mentality. It means they no longer play fair. That is the greatest threat to our nation.
The group uses both the Second Amendment and the constitutional right to bear arms as justifications for its lobbying and advocacy efforts around gun legislation.
The NRA has had astounding success at using its messaging to support advocacy for legislation that expands gun rights while endangering public safety. By using hyperbolic language and extreme examples that are often disconnected from the realities of gun violence, it maintains that guns are needed for self-defense and that legislation only burdens law-abiding citizens. Last time I checked, both are enemies of the U.
Yet even with these tangents into other polarizing political issues, the core message of the NRA continues to be about protecting the freedoms and rights of the law-abiding American—a message that makes it easy for discussions to be spun back into the gun rights debate. The issue of security along the U. President Trump campaigned on the proposal of installing a wall along the U. The issue of immigration at the border presents an existential crisis for the so-called American patriot—a crisis narrative that is perpetuated by the president and his own staff, who have spread blatant falsehoods about the border and the scale of the problem of migrants seeking asylum in the United States.
NRATV programming also often hosts so-called angel families, whose loved ones were killed by undocumented immigrants, to link the threat presented by the NRA to law-abiding American patriots.
This is an invasion. This is a national emergency. The goal of this interview was not to describe the actual problem but rather to depict an imminent threat to the American people. Yet these efforts neglected the fact that this incident was a tragic outlier and that cities with increased migrant populations do not see changes in crime rates.
The narrative spun by NRATV is devoid of facts, focusing instead on sustaining the myth of gun ownership being necessary for self-defense in an increasingly dangerous United States. Unlike the demographics of asylum seekers entering Europe, the majority of migrants seeking asylum in the United States are women and children fleeing violence. Click here to download the tarball the data is stored in. The data is stored in a single CSV file sorted by increasing date.
It has the following fields:. Each list is encoded as a string with separator. For example, "a b" represents ['a', 'b']. Each dict is encoded as a string with outer separator and inner separator For example, this:. The incident described here resulted in the following fields:. The list of incidents from is not exhaustive; only incidents from that year were catalogued. Please provide credit to and notify Gun Violence Archive if you intend to use this dataset in your project.
Read their terms here. All we ask is to please provide proper credit for use of Gun Violence Archive data and advise us of its use. On Oct. Police have not said if they know of a motive and are seeking information from the public. No arrests have been made and police declined to speculate on what led to the shootings. At Philadelphia's Simon Gratz High School Mastery Charter, five students were killed and nine others were shot or shot at during the last school year.
Just weeks into the new school year, two students and a recent graduate have been killed. The school offers a space for memorials to slain students, often helps with funeral expenses and offers counseling services. Black children and teenagers were four times more likely than whites to be fatally shot. Starsky Wilson, said a spike in gun sales during the pandemic has made things worse. Social media also plays a role, experts say.
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Outcome and measures The primary outcome of interest was the rate of GV during the COVID 19 pandemic versus month period prior, both at the state and national levels. Statistical analysis Our data set consists of daily counts of GV events within each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia from January 01, , through March 31, Results We identified 92, gun violence events resulting in injury or death in the U.
Table 1 The table indicates that there was a Full size table. Figure 1. Full size image. Figure 2. Figure 3. Public health implications Gun violence is a frequently ignored public health epidemic. Strengths and limitations Our study included several strengths and limitations. Conclusion Overall, U.
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