Social Media Gun Argument Cheat Sheet

Brian Hastert
12 min readAug 8, 2019

Have you been engaging in arguments about guns on Facebook with family or old high school acquaintances only to feel dispirited by the sheer, numbing repetitiveness of it all? Have you sworn off further futile fights only to be drawn back in by the next thoughtless tweet to ‘avoid politicizing tragedy’ or disingenuous ‘video games are to blame’ post in the hours after a mass shooting?

We all have.

the word ‘facebook’ as the body of an assault rifle

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Brian Hastert

Actor, educator, screenwriter, local democracy advocate