The View From North Central Idaho

We can continue to push legislation of dubious effectiveness. Or we can acknowledge that gun violence is a public-health crisis fueled by an inherently dangerous consumer product. To end the crisis, we have to regulate--or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban--the product.

Josh Sugarmann
Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center
From the article "Reverse Fire"
January/February 1994 Issue of Mother Jones