Gun Policy News
New Jersey Cops Plan to Trace Every Crime Gun Back to its Provider
29 January 2008
Star-Ledger (New Jersey), Blog
Imagine the crime problem in our cities as a pyramid.
At the base are the social problems with elusive solutions: poverty and broken family structure. No work means nothing to work for. No family means declining social values.
At the pyramid's tip is gun violence. All the layers in between — from failing education to rampant drug use to diminished humanity through pop culture — lead to it.
Guns kill, maim and cripple. That's the physical. The psychological is... (GunPolicy.org)