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Profiles a friendship between two men on opposite sides of the gun debate, who met at Guns: An American Conversation, a partnership among Advance Local Media, Spaceship Media, and Essential Partners.
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How a Guns Factsheet Improved Online Dialogue
We don’t usually think of data as a roadblock to productive discourse. We can take it for granted that the world is objective and measurable, and that everyone sees what we see. But that’s not always the case.
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Inspired by their participation in Guns: An American Conversation, journalists Stephen Koff and John Count assembled this document to provide a common touchstone for participants in difficult conversations about gun rights, regulation, and violence in the United States.
