Sheldon Jacobson writes: “Politicians have had their chance. Let someone else take the wheel — namely, the medical community.”
The challenge that comes with these causes of death is that a constitutional right isn’t involved in either of them. In contrast, the, ratified more than 230 years ago, gives people the right to bear arms. However, even those who hang onto the Second Amendment as their thread to preserve unfettered access to firearms would argue that its role is to allow for egregious acts.
Data can be used to assess associations and relationships between factors, but it is far more difficult to conduct the experiments that are typically needed to assess causality. That is why no single policy for to reducing gun violence can yield substantive and measurable results.One positive development is that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now able to study gun violence after aban instituted by politicians dating to 1996.
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