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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Nicholas Kristof: Our Blind Spot About Gun Regulation


"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"

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KRISTOF: Our blind spot about gun regulation. "Whenever I write about the need for sensible regulation of guns, some readers jeer: Cars kill people, too, so why not ban cars? Why are you so hypocritical as to try to take away guns from law-abiding people when you don’t seize cars? That question is a reflection of our national blind spot about guns. The truth is that we regulate cars quite intelligently, instituting evidence-based measures to reduce fatalities. Yet the gun lobby is too strong, or our politicians too craven, to do the same for guns. So guns and cars now each kill more than 30,000 in America every year." Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times.




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