Month: January 2016

  • Mitigating gun violence versus controlling gun access

    Gun control is decisive.  Guns salve fear.  Fear is increasingly pervasive, mostly because it is an effective tool for manipulating the market or the masses, occasionally because it is warranted. Fear-of-direct-bodily-harm-driven gun violence is most hazardous in places with higher population density.  More people in smaller spaces increases the opportunity for both ad hoc violence,…