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Dan Baum is a former staff writer for The New Yorker, and has written for numerous other magazines and newspapers including the New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Harper's, and Wired. He is the author of NINE LIVES: Mystery, Magic, Death and Life in New Orleans (Spiegel & Grau, 2009) and is currently at work on a book about American gun culture, forthcoming from Knopf. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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After Tucson: Stricter Gun Laws Aren't the Answer

Posted January 20, 2011 | 13:55:43 (EST)

It's tempting, after a hideous event like the shooting in Tucson, to want to "do something" about gun violence. But let's pause to consider what that something could be, and what price we might pay for doing it.

Much has been made of Arizona's notoriously lax gun laws. But Arizona...

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