Limit gun purchases by any one person to no more than, say, two a month, and tighten rules on straw purchasers who buy for criminals. Invest in “smart gun” purchases by police departments or the U.S. military, to promote their use. Invest in research to see what interventions will be more effective in reducing gun deaths. In some ways, these mass shootings are anomalies: Most gun deaths occur in ones or twos, usually with handguns (which kill far more people than assault rifles), and suicides outnumber murders. Yet the federal government doesn’t make a serious effort to reduce gun deaths, with a toll more than 100 times as high.

Source: New York Times October 02, 2017 14:12 UTC