In a city of 8.6 million people, in a country flooded with guns, this is pretty incredible. New York is getting something very, very right.https://twitter.com/patrick_sharkey/status/1052542751911407616 …
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I used FB ads to grow the group. I suppose that they saw them and told me what to do with my little advocacy group. Purely anecdotally: most were gun nuts Several "liked" gun manufacturers, posed with guns, etc (the ones who didn't hide their identities.)
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and the explicit goal of the group was to help change gun laws. There is a segment of the population that regards that as threatening to their self-protection and their ability to fight tyranny and they let me know what they would do if they ever came across me.
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I didn't establish anything statistically that I think would hold up to scrutiny today, but I learned *a lot* (and wrote a lot) about the gun problem in Chicago. So little research is done on gun violence.Harvard's TH Chan was an exception as is JHU today (not back then.)
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I was much more staunchly anti-gun then. Background: my cousin and a friend were shot to death in a road rage incident about 25 years ago. I used all available data to show the strong correlation between gun availability and gun deaths (homicide and suicide) across the country.
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