Some specific thoughts on gun safety

Thanks for the comments on the previous post.  That most of the media and political attention goes to the occasional mass shootings, while the daily toll of smaller scale incidents that account for the vast majority of firearm injuries and deaths is mostly ignored should not be surprising. It ' s front page news, sometimes for days, when an airliner goes down and a hundred people or more die, but the daily toll of motor vehicle deaths and injuries, which is a couple of orders of magnitude greater over time, is scarcely news at all. This is in part because of the sheer scale of the mass  catastrophe events, and also precisely because of their relative rarity. People tend not to notice events that happen regularly and predictably.  However, another factor in the case of firearm violence is that it does disproportionately affect Black men, and that may explain some of the disproportionate focus on some of these incidents which have mostly affected white victims. The reasons for that are well understood by sociologists but are apparently difficult to explain to much of the public. It ' s a very important problem and I do mean to write about it, but the solutions are beyond the scope of this post so I will put that in the parking lot. I would like to take the analogy with cars a lot farther. First, we don ' t talk about car control, we talk about traffic safety. And I think it will help if we talk about firearm safety, rather than gun control. We don ...
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