National Statistician has second thoughts after analysing data

[41mag]

Seems that the actual numbers tell a different story than anticipated:

Statistician Rethinks Gun Control After Digging into the Data - DC Dirty Laundry

Writing at the Washington Post, statistician Leah Libresco explains that basically everything she believed about gun control was wrong.

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"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."

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[titsonritz]

Wow, a do-gooder actually comes to reality, wonders never cease.

 

[GWS]

I expect we'll see this on the front page of the New York Times by tomorrow...

ETA I failed to commend the honesty of Ms. Libresco.
Brava, madam!

 

[titsonritz]

I expect we'll see this on the front page of the New York Times by tomorrow...

Right next to the John Lott piece.

 

[Capn Jack]

You'll never see that on MSN

 

[Xaevian]

this is my shocked face...

 

[DB is Here]

"I looked at the facts"....Well, that's a first.

 

[WoodsPlinker]

The original article and statements are from 2017

I've always wondered why it never got used more often.

Interesting that they decided to drag up this statement now