Originally Posted by
Jaw
I would like to see someone take a Moneyball approach to this. Get some hard stats. Identify every instance of gun violence, then break it down by age, gender, race, education level, number of parents, type of household, religion, income level, employment status, warning signs, criminal history, and anything else that smart people can come up with, then use that information to diagnose the problem and start considering solutions.
What troubles me is that the federal government does this type of analysis in lots of other areas, so I suspect they are actively choosing not to do it here.