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Suryc11 comments on Gun Control: How would we know? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Suryc11 21 December 2012 09:18:58AM *  2 points [-]

Here's a report by the National Research Council of the National Academies (specifically, the Committee to Improve Research Information and Data on Firearms). It is a rigorous report that extensively discusses the issues with demonstrating a causal connection (or lack thereof)--between level of gun control and innocents killed--and generally refrains from making particular policy prescriptions.