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Gun-Crazy Right Wing Howls for Bob Costas to Be Fired

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kirkspencer12/03/2012 6:39:53 pm PST

I would love to see a comprehensive study of shooters - homicide and suicide both. One that looks for a full slate of economic, sociological, and psychological factors.

Follow that with a comprehensive study of gun owners on the same slate of factors. And finally a comprehensive study of non-gun owners.

Now cross-correlate for factors in shooters that are not in (or uncommon to) non-gun owners, with a further correlation for factors that are less common to uncommon in gun owners who haven’t shot someone.

With that data in hand begin the process of determining laws and procedures to reduce shootings.

Won’t fly, of course. The NRA will convince all gun owners that the end result will be a total gun ban. But it would be nice to work from data instead of biased mythology on both sides of the gun control divide.