Posted on 10/04/2017 12:56:54 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes and all the other measures that could make guns less deadly.
Then, my colleagues and I at FiveThirtyEight spent three months analyzing all 33,000 lives ended by guns each year in the United States, and I wound up frustrated in a whole new way. We looked at what interventions might have saved those people, and the case for the policies I'd lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence. The best ideas left standing were narrowly tailored interventions to protect subtypes of potential victims, not broad attempts to limit the lethality of guns.
I researched the strictly tightened gun laws in Britain and Australia and concluded that they didn't prove much about what America's policy should be. Neither nation experienced drops in mass shootings or other gun related-crime that could be attributed to their buybacks and bans. Mass shootings were too rare in Australia for their absence after the buyback program to be clear evidence of progress. And in both Australia and Britain, the gun restrictions had an ambiguous effect on other gun-related crimes or deaths.
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Ms. Lebresco is a very smart woman who, unfortunately, was raised in a atheist, liberal home. She is coming around slowly since she reasoned her way from atheism into Christianity.
Agreed. It takes objectivity and humility, neither common in a leftist.
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Did they figure out how to install a suppressor on Hillary yet?
Someone had an Aussie on this morning talking about the misconception of the success of gun control in Australia. I think it was Brian Kilmeade who was interviewing him..it’s difficult to remember who/where/when we heard something as there’s so much we think we have to listen to...I hadn’t yet gotten a start on my day so sat down with my tea to watch for a bit. It was pretty interesting and worth listening to if one is in the mood to hear the lies exposed as to effective gun control etc. It needs to be shown over and over and this article is a good start on that subject...
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