Guns Guide To Liberals

On our 12th and final episode of Season One, Sarah's soft skills segment is about how to talk with politicians and cultivate those relationships. Jon's Bad Argument of the Day is about, well, arguing.

In this episode, Sarah wraps up the series on online discussions, delving into how to manage these conversations in spaces where it's difficult to control the message. And Jon's Bad Argument of the day lays out an alternative to "registration leads to confiscation" which may resonate more with those who think that registration is "common sense."   SHOW NOTES Learn more about Noah Schwartz’s research at http://www.noahschwartz.ca/

Ever wonder if there's a real human on the other end of those campaign texts? Get ready for the kind of positive political conversation you thought was extinct in 2020. 

Sarah continues her soft skills segment on how to have better arguments and conversations online. Jon talks about how we can make the check against tyranny more relatable by framing it in terms of our contemporary discussions of consent. 

In this episode, Sarah begins to outline the strategy tree for having successful arguments and discussions online and Jon's Bad Argument of the Day attempts to make the case against Red Flag Laws from the point of view of liberal values.    Trolling is contagious: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5791909/ How well can professionals predict violence: https://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e4692?view=long&pmid=22833604 Take a Chance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Our third and final episode from our SHOT roundtable discussion with Chuck Rossi and BJ Campbell from Open Source Defense and Douglas Jefferson, VP of National African American Gun Association. BJ Campbell’s article about “gun deaths” and meaningful action to prevent suicide. https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/the-left-is-making-the-wrong-case-on-gun-deaths-heres-a-better-case-1429e7ad2f25 Help yourself: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Help a friend: https://www.bethe1to.com/bethe1to-steps-evidence/    

Part two of our fantastic round-table discussion with Chuck Rossi and BJ Campbell of Open Source Defense and Douglas Jefferson of the National African American Gun Association.

The first of our SHOT bonus episodes. We had the amazing opportunity to sit down with Douglas Jefferson from the National African American Gun Association and with Chuck Rossi and BJ Campbell of Open Source Defense and put in a marathon recording session. 

In this episode, Sarah continues her discussion of how to mitigate burnout. Jon's Bad Argument of the Day is about how we talk past each other about issues of compromise and infringement. 

In this episode we talk about burnout. How it happens and how to prevent it. And the Bad Argument of the Day addresses the game theory behind why assuming your political opponents are evil can't possibly generate optimal outcomes.  Burnout - a review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4911781/   Mastery as a coping strategy:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2071-07632015000100010   Prisoners Dilemma  https://xplaind.com/472079/prisoners-dilemma

In this episode, Sarah talks about how to guide difficult conversations through the minefields of policy proposals. And Jon talks about how assertions like, "Nobody's coming for your guns" are bad for everyone.   Focused deterrence - reduces violent crime by 30% https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL261/better-policing-toolkit/all-strategies/focused-deterrence/in-depth.html#analyzing-the-evidence-for-foc-   Suicide prevention strategies https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/suicideTechnicalPackage.pdf   Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model https://www.secretservice.gov/data/protection/ntac/USSS_NTAC_Enhancing_School_Safety_Guide_7.11.18.pdf   Mass Attacks in Public Places -- threat assessment and best practices https://www.secretservice.gov/data/press/reports/USSS_FY2019_MAPS.pdf

For the holidays, we're deviating slightly from our schedule and doing a listener questions episodes. This episode also corresponds to a live-stream on our Facebook page, so head over there to watch us record this episode! Mentioned in this episode: Rand Corporation analysis on gun policy: https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy.html

In this episode, Sarah teaches "tactical listening," in Soft Skills to supercharge your persuasiveness. Jon's Bad Argument of the Day is about The Language Game and how both sides of this debate play the language game poorly and to their detriment.    Presence boost and pause techniques based on:  The Charisma Myth, by Olivia Fox Cabane  

In this episode, Sarah shows us how to frame values so they can be heard and understood by those who may disagree with you. And Jon's Bad Argument of the Day tackles Gun Free Zones.   Episode citations: “Accepting Threatening Information: Self-Affirmation and the Reduction of Defensive Biases” - David K. Sherman and Geoffrey L. Cohen https://labs.psych.ucsb.edu/sherman/david/sites/labs.psych.ucsb.edu.sherman.david/files/pubs/sherman_cohen_2002.pdf   “Framing an argument” - Dr Biljana Scott https://www.diplomacy.edu/resources/general/framing-argument https://www.theviolenceproject.org

Bryan Strawser is Founder, Principal, and CEO at Bryghtpath LLC, a strategic advisory firm he founded in 2014. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in the areas of global enterprise risk management, business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, intelligence, and crisis communications. In this episode, we sit down with Bryan to discuss the recently released Violence Project report on mass shootings, common misconceptions about mass shootings, how to identify risks, and intervention strategies. 

Validating values, finding common ground, and the dangerous trap of obviousness.

In this bonus episode, Sarah and Jon discuss why they started Guns Guide to Liberals, what got them involved in firearms, and how gun ownership and the Second Amendment is compatible with liberal values. 

In this episode, Sarah shows us how to extrapolate the positive values out of the statements and arguments put forth by your discussion partner and Jon talks about why math and cognitive bias keep background checks from being an effective solution.

How to maximize the potential of the inevitable political discussions at holiday family functions. In Episode One, we talk communication strategies and why we should stop comparing guns to cars.