While Mangione appears to have a technical background as a games coder and data engineer at Truecar, the level of knowledge needed to create a deadly weapon is getting lower.
Gallup presents data back to the 1960s, but has stated that it didn’t track gun ownership data until around 2000, so it’s not clear how the organization gathered gun ownership data from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
If we are ever going to significantly reduce America’s homicide rate, the solutions have to focus heavily — perhaps almost exclusively — on treating the violence crisis faced by young black males.
This morning a man who is believed to be the killer of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was taken into custody in a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania after being spotted by another customer.
The deputy sheriff told school officials that J.S. had committed no crime by possessing spent shell casings. The youth, the deputy said, had done nothing wrong.
I still have no way to reconcile myself to it — and I’m not sure I’m supposed to. But we just had another election and it’s clear America has no intention of disarming itself anytime soon.
Our job now is to double down on the areas where guns are normalized, and to flip the discourse in the areas where they’re stigmatized.
The good news: November was the 64th straight month with gun sales over one million. The bad news: November’s adjusted
It’s dishonest to use suicide statistics to inflate “gun violence” statistics in order to pass more gun control laws precisely because only a small amount of gun control does anything to address the problem of suicide.
