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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."