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New Yorker (magazine) is implicated in the following disputes on Skeptive:

Is the Second Amendment's right to bear arms a right of individuals, or a right of the states? (view dispute report)

What was the best movie of 2010? (view dispute report)

True or false? "Americans use guns in self-defense about 2.5 million times per year." (view dispute report)

Will Michael Bloomberg run for president in 2012? (view dispute report)

Should the private ownership of guns be banned? (view dispute report)

Who should win the 2012 election: Mitt Romney or Barack Obama? (view dispute report)

Was the killing of Osama bin Laden legal? (view dispute report)

How much does it cost the United States Mint to make a nickel? (view dispute report)

How much does it cost the United States Mint to make a penny? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Most people can tell the difference, when blindfolded, between red and white wine." (view dispute report)

Does preventive care save money in the long run? (view dispute report)

Was Cameron Todd Willingham innocent or guilty of the arson for which he was executed? (view dispute report)

Does gun control work? (view dispute report)

How much does the average wedding cost in the United States? (view dispute report)

Should the United States eliminate the penny? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The modern humanitarian-aid helps to create the kind of misery it is supposed to redress." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Christian aid groups that set up “redemption” programs to buy the freedom of slaves in Sudan drove up the market incentives for slavers to take more captives." (view dispute report)

True or False? "By easing the burden on war ministries volunteer efforts could simply make waging war more attractive, and more probable." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Had it not been for the West’s charity, the Nigerian civil war surely would have ended much sooner." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Jailhouse informants, many of whom are seeking reduced time or special privileges, are notoriously unreliable." (view dispute report)

True or False? "More guns leads to more murders." (view dispute report)

Internationally, is there a correlation between the number of guns and the number of gun murders? (view dispute report)

True or False? "states with strong gun laws have fewer gun murders." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Gun control will eliminate gun massacres in America as surely as antibiotics eliminate bacterial infections." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Pennies no longer have much economic utility." (view dispute report)

Is the Second Amendment's right to bear arms a right of individuals, or a right of the states?

State right

The Simple Truth About Gun Control : The New Yorker

(I’m grateful to my colleague Jeffrey Toobin for showing so well that the idea that the Second Amendment assures individual possession of guns, so far from being deeply rooted in American law, is in truth a new and bizarre reading, one that would have shocked even Warren Burger.)

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Is the Second Amendment's right to bear arms a right of individuals, or a right of the states?

State right

What was the best movie of 2010?

Shutter Island

True or false? "Americans use guns in self-defense about 2.5 million times per year."

False

Will Michael Bloomberg run for president in 2012?

Yes

Should the private ownership of guns be banned?

Yes

Who should win the 2012 election: Mitt Romney or Barack Obama?

Barack Obama

Was the killing of Osama bin Laden legal?

Yes

How much does it cost the United States Mint to make a nickel?

10 cents

How much does it cost the United States Mint to make a penny?

1.7 cents

True or False? "Most people can tell the difference, when blindfolded, between red and white wine."

False.

Does preventive care save money in the long run?

No

Was Cameron Todd Willingham innocent or guilty of the arson for which he was executed?

Innocent

Does gun control work?

Yes

How much does the average wedding cost in the United States?

About $20,000.

Should the United States eliminate the penny?

Yes

True or False? "The modern humanitarian-aid helps to create the kind of misery it is supposed to redress."

True

True or False? "Christian aid groups that set up “redemption” programs to buy the freedom of slaves in Sudan drove up the market incentives for slavers to take more captives."

True

True or False? "By easing the burden on war ministries volunteer efforts could simply make waging war more attractive, and more probable."

True

True or False? "Had it not been for the West’s charity, the Nigerian civil war surely would have ended much sooner."

True

True or False? "Jailhouse informants, many of whom are seeking reduced time or special privileges, are notoriously unreliable."

True

True or False? "More guns leads to more murders."

True

Internationally, is there a correlation between the number of guns and the number of gun murders?

Yes

True or False? "states with strong gun laws have fewer gun murders."

True

True or False? "Gun control will eliminate gun massacres in America as surely as antibiotics eliminate bacterial infections."

True

True or False? "Pennies no longer have much economic utility."

True