Gun issue not simple

Thu., Oct. 26, 2017

What to do in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas? Any proposed policies should be based on facts, not dogma. In this regard, the paper and its readers should review the oped by Leah Libresco in the Oct. 3 Washington Post. Ms. Libresco, a statistician and former writer for FiveThirtyEight (Nate Silver’s firm), favored so-called common sense gun control polices and deplored the NRA. But then she and her colleagues spent three months studying gun deaths and concluded that policies such as banning “assault weapons,” limiting magazine capacities and restricting suppressors would be ineffective.

She concluded that the best ideas are “narrowly tailored interventions to protect subtypes of victims.”

Mike Wolfe

Spokane

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