Wednesday, December 19, 2012

More on guns.

A short note by David Frum, a Canadian RINO, on the best ways to prevent mass shootings.

A further discussion from Reason magazine in 1997 about something I mentioned earlier - why we do not have good gun violence statistics. The answer: Congress refuses to fund it, essentially. This thing they're talking about - still going on 15 years later. That's a long time not to have good research.

A discussion of whether armed civilians stop shooting rampages. Answer: not really. The cases where it has seem to be retired or off-duty police or former military. This doesn't take anything away from what they did, it's great. But the use of a firearm in a confrontation requires training and not just any Joe Blow on the street with a gun will have that.

And the sort of article you would expect from Ezra Klein.

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