How to Prevent Gun Deaths? Where Experts and the Public Agree

[SecularMotion]

The mass shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida last week shows how much the conversation around gun violence has changed since the presidential election.

Five people were killed, and many others were injured; a few months ago, such carnage would have prompted new calls for more restrictions on guns. But Republicans are preparing to control the White House along with Congress. Donald J. Trump has promised to roll back gun restrictions. The most prominent gun measure currently before Congress is one that would allow people with concealed-weapon permits from one state to carry their weapons to other states.

The concealed carry legislation is one of many gun measures that policy makers have debated in recent years. Backers of those ideas, whether the emphasis is gun rights or gun control, often say the intent is to make Americans safer. We've wondered whether the various ideas politicians talk about would work, and whether the public would support them. In June, we asked Morning Consult, a media and polling firm, to survey two groups: some of the country’s leading experts on gun violence, and a representative sample of the American electorate.

Our expert survey asked dozens of social scientists, lawyers and public health officials how effective each of 29 policies would be in reducing firearm homicide deaths, regardless of their political feasibility or cost. Policies deemed both effective and popular appear in the upper-right corner of the matrix. Less popular, less effective measures fall lower down and to the left.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/10/upshot/How-to-Prevent-Gun-Deaths-The-Views-of-Experts-and-the-Public.html

[doc03]

1. I talked to a Hillary is going to take our guns Trump voter this morning. He is saying

he couldn't believe you were able to carry guns and ammo on a plane. He said they have to stop that
right now, it's ridiculous. I was able to control myself and didn't say anything. I know I would just
get my blood pressure up and it would be a total waste to argue with him.

[HoneyBadger]

3. You can't

You can check them in. Like a dead body, a laser, a sword, etc.

[doc03]

4. I did try to explain to him you can't carry them on a plane but

you can carry them in checked luggage, he still was amazed that was permitted and said they have to stop that.
So what do you say, one day they think everyone at the airport should be armed then when this guy shoots people
they don't think you shouldn't have guns on a plane period.

[libtodeath]

2. There is one way that has proven to work,turn them in.

Too bad we have repukes that dont have the care for life that other countries do.

[doc03]

5. I was talking to the same guy a few days ago about a Grand Canyon

tour I am taking and said I would like to go to Europe sometime. He said there is no way he would ever
go to Europe because they have a lot of problems with Muslims over there. I said Europe is a big place
a few days ago someone ran down shoppers in Germany. I told him we have far greater chance of getting
shot by someone with road rage here than you do a terrorist attack in Germany. Well not to him, here you
can carry a gun to protect yourself.