{"id":31896,"date":"2012-12-24T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T16:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/what-works-to-reduce-gun-violence.html"},"modified":"2012-12-24T09:24:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T16:24:59","slug":"what-works-to-reduce-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/what-works-to-reduce-gun-violence.html","title":{"rendered":"What works to reduce gun violence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s hard to tell for sure &#8212; in part because of a lack of controlled, single-variable experiments; in part because the NRA-influenced Congress has hobbled statistical gathering of data that might be embarrassing. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn23026-how-to-reduce-the-toll-from-us-gun-violence.html'>How to reduce the toll from US gun violence &#8211; opinion &#8211; 20 December 2012 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the wake of last week&#8217;s massacre at a school in Connecticut, it is time to look to the data for what works in reducing gun violence, says Peter Aldhous\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/goCrAWnfMK7' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/goCrAWnfMK7' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s hard to tell for sure &#8212; in part because of a lack of controlled, single-variable experiments; in part because the NRA-influenced Congress has hobbled statistical gathering of data that might be embarrassing. \u00a0 Embedded Link How to reduce the toll from US gun violence &#8211; opinion &#8211; 20 December 2012 &#8211; New Scientist In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/what-works-to-reduce-gun-violence.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What works to reduce gun violence?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32249,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/19\/the-only-statisticially-sound-way-to-reduce-gun-violence.html","url_meta":{"origin":31896,"position":0},"title":"The only statisticially sound way to reduce gun violence","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 19-Jan-13 4:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sure, you're probably going to start nattering about correlation vs. causation, but dare we take the chance?(h\/t +Koushik Dutta)Reshared post from +Matt MastracciNo comment necessary (fixed!) 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