December 19, 2012
Posted by Jay Livingston
Both Chris Uggen and Ezra Klein have sensible things to say about guns – much more sensible than my rant of a few days ago. They both argue that no legislation can prevent mass killings like the one in Newtown, though restrictions on assault rifles and other weapons might reduce the number of deaths in such incidents. But these mass killings, although newsworthy, account for a small fraction of all gun deaths. What new laws might be able to do is reduce the far more frequent gun deaths – the less newsworthy street-crime and gang killings.
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