--- --- # What President Reagan Can Teach Us About Gun Control by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 3, 2015 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 3, 2015 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**President Reagan learned to love gun control. Can we learn from his legacy?**](http://theweek.com/articles/582926/how-ronald-reagan-learned-love-gun-control) By Peter Weber in the Week **2\.** [**See how refugees helped save Buffalo, New York.**](http://www.npr.org/2015/12/02/458007064/resettled-refugees-help-to-bring-buffalo-back) By Joel Rose at NPR **3\.** [**What does Mark Zuckerberg’s billion-dollar “philanthrocapitalism” move mean for democracy?**](http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/mark-zuckerberg-and-the-rise-of-philanthrocapitalism) By John Cassidy in the New Yorker **4\.** [**We should revisit the term ‘welfare state.’**](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/12/the-welfare-state-a-terrible-name-for-an-essential-system/418500/) By Teresa Ghilarducci in the Atlantic **5\.** [**Is an end to the climate wars in sight?**](http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/12/02/fracking-ends-climate-change-wars-clean-energy-solutions-column/76663456/) By Michael Shellenberger in USA Today  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ What President Reagan Can Teach Us About Gun Control ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4134691/president-reagan-gun-control/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4134691/president-reagan-gun-control/"},"headline":"What President Reagan Can Teach Us About Gun Control","datePublished":"2015-12-03T17:01:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:49.581Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4134691/president-reagan-gun-control/","keywords":["Innovation","climate","Gun Control","welfare","Refugees","Reagan"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4134691/president-reagan-gun-control/","name":"What President Reagan Can Teach Us About Gun Control"}}]}] ```