This past week there was a big meeting in Chicago attended by academics and researchers from all over the country who earn their livings by talking and writing about guns. Except this isn’t a meeting of writers whose stuff appears in magazines like The American Rifleman, Guns & Ammo, or Field & Stream.
This was a meeting put together by an organization known as The Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms which I wrote about last week. And what I basically said was that the one issue which didn’t seem to make it onto the meeting’s agenda was any discussion about reducing gun violence, now being referred to as ‘harms,’ by simply banning certain kinds of guns.