By German Lopez vox.com — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that all adults in the US will be eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine by May 1. “All adult Americans will be eligible to get a vaccine no later than May 1,” Biden said. Riots “can be part of a coherent political movement.”After the Baltimore riots last year that saw widespread damage inflicted upon the city, Vox ran an article by German Lopez titled “Riots are destructive, dangerous, and scary — but can lead to serious social reforms.” One of the defenses of rioting was that “Baltimore is certainly.
Vox’s German Lopez: Now’s The Time to Get Serious About Licensing, Gun Bans
and Confiscation
BY DAN ZIMMERMAN |JUL 10, 2019 |163 COMMENTS
German Lopez Gun Control Vox Guns in the US Problem
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There’s literally no issue in America that the galaxy brains at Vox can’t
address with a, uh, liberal application of bigger, more intrusive,
increasingly authoritarian government action and spending.
And few of those issues inspire more ambitious thinking on the part of the
Voxen than that pesky, uniquely American “problem” of civilian gun
ownership.
Gun control policies that don’t confront the core issue — that America
simply has too many guns — are doomed to merely nibble around the edges.
Everywhere in the world, people get into arguments. Every country has
residents who are dangerous to themselves or others because of mental
illness. Every country has bigots and extremists. But here, it’s uniquely
easy for a person to obtain a gun, letting otherwise tense but nonlethal
conflicts escalate into deadly violence.
To change the status quo, Democrats should go big. They need to focus on the
abundance of guns in the US and develop a suite of policies that directly
tackle that issue, from licensing to confiscation to more aggressive bans of
certain kinds of firearms (including, perhaps, all semiautomatic weapons or
at least some types of handguns).
I am not naive. I don’t think that this would lead to sweeping Australian-
or UK-style gun control legislation passing in 2021. But this broader
conversation has to start somewhere.
The time is now. The NRA is in chaos, as its leadership is caught in a civil
war. The Parkland, Florida, activists have forced guns into the spotlight. A
recent Morning Consult poll found that Democratic voters put gun violence
second only to climate change as the issue they wanted to hear about in the
first debates.
Just like Bernie Sanders helped launch discussions about single-payer and
free college in 2016, a push in 2020 could help get the party to where it
needs to be on this issue if it really wants to address America’s gun
problem.
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Vox Senior Correspondent German Lopez joins Matt and Dara to discuss some of the motivations, obstacles, and oppositions to the Biden administration's early signals on immigration policy, as well as a white paper on a natural experiment in the effects of a reduction in the number of police staff on crime.
Resources:
'Biden's sweeping immigration bill, explained' by Nicole Narea, Vox (Jan. 20, 2021)
'Biden's flurry of first-day executive actions, explained' by German Lopez, Vox (Jan. 20, 2021)
UPDATE: 'A Texas judge just blocked Biden's 100-day pause on deportations' by Nicole Narea, Vox (Jan. 26, 2021)
White paper
Hosts:
Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com
Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration Reporter, ProPublica
German Lopez (@germanrlopez), Senior Correspondent, Vox
Credits:
Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer
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Vox Senior Correspondent German Lopez joins Matt and Dara to discuss some of the motivations, obstacles, and oppositions to the Biden administration's early signals on immigration policy, as well as a white paper on a natural experiment in the effects of a reduction in the number of police staff on crime.
Resources:
'Biden's sweeping immigration bill, explained' by Nicole Narea, Vox (Jan. 20, 2021)
'Biden's flurry of first-day executive actions, explained' by German Lopez, Vox (Jan. 20, 2021)
UPDATE: 'A Texas judge just blocked Biden's 100-day pause on deportations' by Nicole Narea, Vox (Jan. 26, 2021)
White paper
Hosts:
Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com
Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration Reporter, ProPublica
German Lopez (@germanrlopez), Senior Correspondent, Vox
Credits:
Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer
As the Biden administration gears up, we'll help you understand this unprecedented burst of policymaking. Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weeds-newsletter.
The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production.
Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts
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