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[–] placoid 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

Guns are deliberately misused, this is the single most inconvenient fact for people like this author, who believe that guns themselves (not people) are causing deaths.

So of course we should try to reduce this carnage. But we need a new strategy, a public health approach that treats guns as we do cars — taking evidence-based steps to make them safer. That seems to be what President Obama is trying to do.

Because we had a blackmarket in car sales, and restricting the types of cars, the size of their gas tank, and who could buy them, eliminated their use in crime? Regulating guns is as effective in preventing crime as regulating drugs has been in preventing addiction.