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we even regulate toy guns, by requiring orange tips — but lawmakers don't have the gumption to stand up to National Rifle Association extremists and regulate real guns as carefully as we do toys….
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
more Americans died in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined…
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
As a nation, our brains deceive us into thinking we're going to be safer with a gun when in fact we typically endanger ourselves.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
Even if we end up with better regulations, we'll still have 300 million guns washing around the US, and that's going to be a huge problem for decades, because guns last a long time.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
There are two key advantages of thinking of guns as a public health issue. First of all, it removes some of the emotion from the issue because it's no longer about banning guns, it's no longer about guns being awful things. Secondly it moves the debate to be about evidence; where we can empirically show what works, at what cost.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
When it comes to guns, the trend of covering of mass-shootings leads the public to think the big problem is mass shootings. However, the big problems are suicides, domestic violence, known people, and gangs shooting at each other.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
The recent politicisation of guns, which I think the NRA is partly responsible for, has been incredibly debilitating for the country.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
We even regulate toy guns, by requiring orange tips — but lawmakers don't have the gumption to stand up to National Rifle Association extremists and regulate real guns as carefully as we do toys.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
Even if we end up with better regulations, we'll still have 300 million guns washing around the US, and that's going to be a huge problem for decades, because guns last a long time.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
There are two key advantages of thinking of guns as a public health issue. First of all, it removes some of the emotion from the issue. Secondly it moves the debate to be about evidence; where we can empirically show what works, at what cost.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
The basic problem is that if you attempt to commit suicide with a gun, you typically succeed. It's also true that there is a more violent culture generally in the US. The US in general, has broader problems with crime, with social dysfunction, narcotics often, and all these work together with guns to create this epidemic.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
American history has bred a mythology of guns as being protection from an oppressive state. We're not alone however; Australia and Canada's gun ownership stems from a similar history, Switzerland has guns in almost every household- yet they haven't turned guns into this symbol of manhood in the way the US has.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
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