Devin Hughes

The Gun Lobby’s Arsenal of Anarchy Exporting firearms while being shielded from scrutiny allows the gun industry to continue to profit from catastrophe

"The gun lobby enables violence, chaos, and terrorism across the globe — and U.S. laws protect it."
#arsenalofanarchy #guntrafficking #DrugCartels #gunlobby #mexicanborder #BorderCrisis #gunviolenceawareness #GVP #SCOTUS #NationalSecurity #devinhughes

What happens when an unstoppable sociopath meets an immovable sociopath? Tune in live on an internet near you to enjoy the spectacle two face eating leopards try to eat each other's faces in real-time. May the odds be in neither of their favor

Turns out I have resting skeptic face. The segment, in which I appear in the back half: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xnz...

The Insanity of “Guns Don’t Do the Shooting” While intent is important in violence, so too is the tool used

My latest article discussing Trump's hackneyed response to the FSU shooting last month, and how it reflects decades worth of gun lobby disinformation: armedwithreason.substack.com/p/the-insani...

An inside look at RFK Jr.'s brain when he decided to swim in sewage runoff:

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The Firehose of Falsehood is More Powerful than Ever - and More Important to Halt Truth can defeat lies, but only if we fight for it

My newest article on the desperate need for the GVP movement to confront the gun lobby's increasingly powerful Firehose of Falsehood campaign, and how to do so: armedwithreason.substack.com/p/the-fireho...

Our updated "dog shoots man" graphic, a uniquely American story. And the article: armedwithreason.substack.com/p/dog-shoots...

Lovely bit of news from my home state, where teaching outright lies about 2020 could become mandatory: oklahomavoice.com/2025/03/13/p...

Yet another "dog shoots man" story happened this week. Will have to update the graphic...

The news report: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
And my story last year about the uniquely American phenomenon: armedwithreason.substack.com/p/dog-shoots...

Such a sad day for America to see the leader of the free world, President Zelensky, be extorted by the willing pawns of authoritarianism, Trump and Vance, and then insulted for not being grateful enough.

FACT SHEET: Federally Mandated Concealed Carry Reciprocity Pending legislation would allow a person who can carry a firearm in one state to be able to legally carry in any state, regardless of the other states’ existing law

GVPedia’s new Fact Sheet outlines why Concealed Carry Reciprocity is a terrible, and unpopular, idea.
“Permitless Carry would become the de-facto rule nationwide, meaning states with stronger laws would have their laws superseded by states with no standards.” #armedwithfacts

GVPedia’s Concealed Carry Reciprocity Fact Sheet - GVPedia GVPedia envisions a world in which disinformation no longer holds sway over the gun violence debate and the public has ready access to accurate information about firearms and the risks they pose.

As proposed, the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity legislation currently pending before Congress would create a national system of permitless carry, which would undermine numerous state laws and law enforcement, enshrine irresponsible gun carrying as the standard, and cost lives.
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You're picking up "unspecified" with x95 which is the overwhelming majority of cases. If you only look at "long gun" x94 it becomes tiny. Based on FBI and GVA data, I guarantee the vast majority of unspecified are handguns.

Yes, though it can impact open carry (which would include long guns). Further, unless there was something really bizarre in the underlying data, long gun homicides shouldn't change, meaning the % change in handgun homicides would be even higher than shown (but not much given low long gun %).

GVPedia Permitless Gun Homicide Public

Here, table on left are the raw numbers, numbers on right calculate it as percent increase/decrease (with Year 0 becoming a baseline "1" value). States with some highlight are those with lower levels of data. "NPC" is the basket of 21 states that never went Permitless docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

1. My analysis looks just at Permitless Carry states vs the national average during the same time periods. For states moving to right-to-carry, I'd recommend Dr. Donohue's work.
2. Looks at overall gun homicides, which are overwhelmingly handguns, though the CDC data doesn't get that granular.

Using CDC data, we found that states that pass Permitless Carry see their gun homicide rates increase by 27% in the 3 years after passage, more than doubling the 10% average national increase over the same time period.

Weakening gun laws costs lives.
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Yesterday GVPedia released a Factsheet about the Federally Mandated Concealed Carry Reciprocity bill currently gaining traction in Congress. Part of that analysis was updating a study that we conducted a few years ago on Permitless Carry. 1/2

Permitless Cary costs lives. My new analysis with GVPedia finds that such laws increase gun homicides by 27% after their passage, more than doubling a 10% average increase in the country overall over the same time periods.

Education Over Erasure Let’s call our gun violence problem what it is - an epidemic

My most recent article talking about the importance of an inclusive mass shootings definition, why it matters, and why trying to minimize the number of mass shootings enables the gun lobby's Firehose of Falsehood disinformation campaign:

As the past month of Trump 2.0 (it's only been just over a month... shudder) has proven beyond a reasonable doubt, MAGA "meritocracy" is merely DEI tailored for unqualified white people and sociopaths.

Could've sworn there was an Amendment that some folks swore would never allow this to happen. Hmmmm, give me a second...

A toddler has a tantrum and picks up a vase to throw it. Two adults rush over, grab the vase, and start trying to sooth the child.

MAGA: What a brilliant, bold, and strong toddler.

And that's just week two of the dumbest presidency in history...

Armed With Reason: The Podcast - Episode 32 Moving into 2025, GVPedia's leaders discuss how to gain victories in a seemingly lost era for gun violence prevention

Check out our new podcast today- featuring a talk between GVPedia founder Devin Hughes and Executive Director Caitlin Clarkson Pereira, about how the Gun Violence Prevention movement can go forward. #podcast #armedwithfacts #disinformation #mythbusting

Turns out Elon Musk was Dr. Strangelove the entire time...

The second Trump was sworn in, he instantly became the most corrupt president in history, surpassing even his first term, on the basis of his meme-coins alone, which are pure scams designed to enrich his inner circle. Welcome to the era of scamming Americans and selling out America.

Our last day before the Dark Triad Klepto-Kakistocracy Cult is installed. While it is never wise to bet on the world ending, a lot of truly horrific stuff can occur well short of complete calamity, and we are once again entering such historic times. The worst president in history, round 2, begins...

YouTube video by voidzilla trump memecoin is insane

If it involves crypto, it is a bubble, scam, or both. If it involves Trump, it will likely be the most vile form of corruption. Combine Trump and crypto, and you get all of the above: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zjB...

Myth-Busting Monday: John Lott, Still Wrong on Gun-Free Zones The latest report from the gun lobby's favorite "researcher" is still fabricating data on mass shootings

Also, John Lott's gun-free zone claims are fundamentally fraudulent, as we show here (to this day, he counts each fatality in a mass shooting as an entire mass shooting for a two decade period, along with a host of other objective falsehoods and errors): armedwithreason.substack.com/p/myth-busti...