If any of these politicians had any sense, they'd be using a tool familiar to people who do technical analysis of investments and markets: that tool being "back testing".
They should be looking at each proposal and asking how many previous mass shootings would have been prevented if that proposal had been in place. If the best proposals they can come up with would only have prevented some minor fraction of the total, they need to be asking just exactly how much of our constitution they're willing to shred in order to possibly prevent future shootings one such minor fraction at a time.
They need to consider that even in the police state of the USSR, mass shootings still occurred.
If any of these politicians had any sense, they'd be using a tool familiar to people who do technical analysis of investments and markets: that tool being "back testing".
ReplyDeleteThey should be looking at each proposal and asking how many previous mass shootings would have been prevented if that proposal had been in place. If the best proposals they can come up with would only have prevented some minor fraction of the total, they need to be asking just exactly how much of our constitution they're willing to shred in order to possibly prevent future shootings one such minor fraction at a time.
They need to consider that even in the police state of the USSR, mass shootings still occurred.
And then there's Chicago.