NPR’s Robert Siegel \u00a0interviews a Harvard researcher – Professor Thomas Abt, of Harverd’s Law School and Kennedy School – about the recent spike in violent crime.<\/p>\n
They try to get Abt to blame the ownership of guns by law-abiding civilians.<\/p>\n
Abt doesn’t:<\/p>\n
SIEGEL: First, let me put to you a very common reaction to rising violent crime or rising murder rates. It’s guns. It’s the number of guns that are out there. Can we say that’s a cause?<\/p>\n
ABT: I think it’s unlikely<\/strong>. The reason is I don’t think anything is fundamentally changed in the gun markets<\/strong> in the United States. The second reason is because overwhelmingly gun crime is perpetrated with weapons that are already illegal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
SIEGEL: So there’s a relationship to violent crime, but it’s not necessarily a relationship to a spike in violent crime over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n
ABT: Yes. That’s the tension. On all sides, there is an urge to simplify these issues down to one factor<\/strong>, and it’s usually the factor that that particular person or constituency cares most about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And NPR actually ran it.<\/p>\n
My shocked face doesn’t translate to print well, unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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