A New Way to Tackle Gun Deaths...Nicholas Kristof

[mystery-ak]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-a-new-way-to-tackle-gun-deaths.html?ref=opinion

A New Way to Tackle Gun Deaths

OCT. 3, 2015

We’ve mourned too often, seen too many schools and colleges devastated by shootings, watched too many students get an education in grief. It’s time for a new approach to gun violence.

We’re angry, but we also need to be smart. And frankly, liberal efforts, such as the assault weapons ban, were poorly designed and saved few lives, while brazen talk about banning guns just sparked a backlash that empowered the National Rifle Association.

What we need is an evidence-based public health approach — the same model we use to reduce deaths from other potentially dangerous things around us, from swimming pools to cigarettes. We’re not going to eliminate guns in America, so we need to figure out how to coexist with them.

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[sinkspur]

Ah, yes. Liability insurance for owning a gun. More silly liberal nostrums that will affect law-abiding gun owners, not the criminals or the crazies.

NONE of what Kristoff suggests would have stopped any of the mass shootings we've seen in the last few years. Guns were bought legally. 

I'm really hoping Hillary makes gun control a central tenet of her campaign.

[GourmetDan]

What we need is an evidence-based public health approach...

You're hallucinating if you think the government and media are going to give you an evidence-based public health approach...