P2 Project Statement - Gun Control

2nd Amendment Advocacy is a news outlet that seeks to defend the right to private ownership of firearms as originally defined and established by the U.S. Constitution by providing scholarly studies of the relevant amendment and ratifying committees as well as statistics and demographics and current events. We seek to report in a nonpartisan and factually-centered way, and while we do believe that the philosophy of private arms ownership does bear itself out to be the most beneficial policy, we also believe that the facts should speak for themselves.

We are commissioning an infographic showing the statistics of reported use of firearm defense annually, as well as the rates of violent escalation and damage in areas of greater control vs less, before and after laws were passed in the former.

Here are some resources to get started with:

http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp

http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/violent_crime/index.html

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=161637

http://www.thenation.com/blog/171774/fifteen-us-mass-shootings-happened-2012-84-dead#

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/nine-facts-about-guns-and-mass-shootings-in-the-united-states/

http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/24/making-sense-of-mass-shooting-statistics

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/12/gun-rhetoric-vs-gun-facts/