Today POLITICO Arena asks:
Should gun control be discussed
My response:
Gun control should certainly be discussed in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings, if only to clarify how little the problem of gun violence will be addressed by increased gun restrictions. A 2003 Centers for Disease Control report, for example, found no conclusive evidence that gun control laws reduced gun violence, a conclusion that was echoed a year later by an exhaustive National Academy of Sciences study.
So if we’re serious about addressing the problem, we have to begin by first putting it in perspective and then follow the evidence. Horrendous as Friday’s shootings were, “school violence has decreased considerably since the 1990s,” an NPR interview yesterday noted, “and schools are still the safest place for students to be.” Moreover, as NPR science correspondent Shankar Vedantam noted in a separate interview, it’s extraordinarily difficult to do the kind of profiling many today are calling for.
Read more at http://www.cato.org/blog/gun-control-debate-resumes
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