New research shows the death rate among young people from gun violence rose with the increasing level of social vulnerability within the communities where the incidents occurred, regardless of whether a state’s gun laws were more permissive or restrictive. [More]
“Gun laws alone” implies they’ll work in tandem with other centralized collectivist controls, which will only make everything worse.
“Social vulnerability” implies that personal failures are due to “systemic injustices” of a society with expectations for individual responsibility and accountability with commensurate incentives and deterrents, rather than the predictable and inevitable outcome of collectivist subsidizing of poor decision-making.
[Via Jess]
