Quote of the Day
Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes and all the other measures that could make guns less deadly.
Then, my colleagues and I at FiveThirtyEight spent three months analyzing all 33,000 lives ended by guns each year in the United States, and I wound up frustrated in a whole new way. We looked at what interventions might have saved those people, and the case for the policies I’d lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence. The best ideas left standing were narrowly tailored interventions to protect subtypes of potential victims, not broad attempts to limit the lethality of guns.
Leah Libresco
October 3, 2017
Opinion | I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise. – The Washington Post
Reality is tough. And when reality contradicts what you firmly believe, it is even harder to see and accept. I have to give Libresco a lot of credit for this.
Well, it has been eight years since she learned this and you can see how much the MSM controls information as this is the first I have heard of this specific person and the results of their research. There are undoubtedly hundreds more people that have had the same experience and yet the “accepted” information sources remain mute. The “unacceptable” information sources are beginning to see a greater recognition and impact. Perhaps the day is not far off when accurate information will have widespread availability and the purveyors of liberty limiting information and policies will see ostracization or incarceration as appropriate.
Wow. An honest academic! What’s that put us up to? 20, maybe 30?
Good news none the less.
Welcome to the party Leah!