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Violent video games aren’t connected to shootings

Matthew Yan October 27, 2019
Whenever the topic of gun control gets brought up on television or in Congress, there are always two scapegoats the National Rifle Association (NRA) tend to present: mental health and video games.
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A Ruger carbine (left), four AR-15 rifles and shotguns lined on a wall. New York state law prohibits semi-automatic rifles from having a pistol grip and a detachable magazine.ANDREW INFANTINO/THE STATESMAN

In defense of the AR-15

Andrew Infantino August 31, 2019
Used by both millions of lawful citizens and some of America’s worst mass murderers, the AR-15 is arguably the most controversial rifle in United States history.
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Demonstrators during the student-organized March for Our Lives at Stony Brook on March 28. The march came four days after the worldwide March for Our Lives.  EMMA HARRIS/THE STATESMAN

Stony Brook students march for gun control, disarmed UPD

Mike Adams March 31, 2018
Stony Brook student activists and political leaders from various groups joined together to demand gun control reform in a march on campus Wednesday, March 28.
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A screenshot of a Statesman editorial from 2001. The writer argues that then-President George W. Bush was neglecting the truth behind gun issues to appease his followers. STATESMAN FILE

ARCHIVES: Have Bush: Will Have Guns Too (2001)

March 21, 2001
From The Statesman archives, an opinions writer claims that then-President George W. Bush ignored gun control issues in order to please his supporters.
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A screenshot from a 1989 issue of The Statesman. Undergraduate Scott Staub responds to an earlier article about the National Rifle Association. STATESMAN FILE

ARCHIVES: Don’t Make Gun Control What It’s Not (1989)

October 26, 1989

Originally published on Oct. 26, 1989 I would like to take up the issue of gun control with the student who wrote in complaining about the cartoon on the National Rifle Association. The article...

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