Gun Policy News
Infatuated with Guns, Americans Can't Think Straight on Public Health Risk
30 January 2011
New York Times, Opinion
Americans are infatuated with guns. And when you're infatuated, you sometimes can't think straight. Maybe that's why, three weeks after the Tucson shootings that shook the nation, we're still no closer to banning oversize magazines like the 33-bullet model allegedly used there. Maybe it will help clarify issues if we imagine an alternate universe — one in which Americans exhibit their toughness not with assault weapons but with assault vehicles, a world in which our... (GunPolicy.org)