http://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/03/statistician-researching-gun-violence-no-longer-believe-gun-control/
Alternate headline: "Statistician obviously never wants a job in media again."
Her name is Leah Libresco, formerly of Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight site, where she crunched the numbers in a study of all 33,000 gun homicides in the United States annually. She went in thinking that the usual liberal menu of anti-gun policies would reduce that number dramatically. She came out concluding that "the only selling point [of those policies] is that gun owners hate them." That's an interesting way to phrase leftist conventional wisdom in an era when the right's tribalism draws so much scrutiny. Often in the age of Trump it really does feel as though conservatism is defined as "whatever makes liberals cry." Libresco's takeaway on the efficacy of mainstream gun-control policies is that they're appealing to the people who support them mainly to the extent they make gun aficionados cry. ...
33,000 gun deaths (NOT "homicides") per year in the U.S. - two-thirds of which are SUICIDES.
"It all depends on what your definition of the word 'is,' is." ~ Billy Jeff Clintoon
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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