Gun Violence & Gun Rights

This video struck me, and annoyed me — the video itself was not particularly annoying but it’s just… convoluted. Under the guise of simplicity, they claim to distill the issue but really mislead.

The problem with research into “gun violence”, aside from the fact that guns themselves are not violent, is that it has been highly politicized and statistics twisted to make the numbers look worse than they actually are. The CDC is notorious for doing this, including such things as including drug dealers and their customers as acquaintances, and…

David, let’s compare apples to apples here. First world countries with strict gun control laws such as Canada the U.K., Australia, New Zealand etc have murder rates that are a fraction of yours. Compare two cities of equivalent size, for example Chicago and Toronto. Toronto’s annual murder rate is about a tenth of Chicago’s. Please don’t trot out the…

Thank you so much for writing this piece. Your mother raised an amazing daughter.

As a violence researcher I am particularly dismayed by Sanders vote to stop research into gun violence, including accidental death. When I told people years ago that you can research any kind of violence except gun violence they didn’t believe…