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Did the National Rifle Association (NRA) block research into statistics related to gun control?

About 30,000 americans die every year from gun-related deaths (a number likely to exceed those dying from automobile-related accidents very soon if trends continue). This totals more than 300,000 ...
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Did Gorbachev ever admit that his intention was to destroy Communism? [closed]

As I remember the 1980s and the Perestroika epoch, the reforms were advertised to the people as "return to Leninist principles", even deeper implementation of Socialism. The posters claimed it was ...
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Are voter ID laws effective tools at *suppressing* voter fraud?

Recent bickering over who should require what to vote where have suggested that requiring a person bring some form of ID to the poll might help alleviate fraud. This makes important assumptions: ...
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Does Audrey Tomason's apocalypse equation thesis exist?

Recently it has been claimed that Audrey Tomason, the US government's Director for Counter-Terrorism has written a master's thesis about an "apocalypse equation": [Audrey Tomason] wrote a master ...