To reduce auto deaths, we’ve taken a public health approach that you
might call “car control” — driver’s licenses, air bags, seat belts, auto
registration. The result is a steady decline in vehicle fatalities so
that some time soon gun deaths are likely to exceed traffic fatalities,
for the first time in modern American history.
There are no magic solutions to the gun carnage in America. But in the
same spirit as what we’ve accomplished to make driving safer, President
Obama has crafted careful, modest measures that won’t solve America’s
epidemic of gun violence but should reduce it.
If we could reduce gun deaths by one-quarter, that would be 7,500 lives
saved a year. Unless life in America really is cheap, that’s worth it.
Makes sense, doesn't it?
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