May 4, 2007
Good Policy, Not Stories, Can Reduce Violence
When news broke April 16 of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, the question many horrified Americans most wanted to answer was, "Who was the shooter?"
It's an urgent and understandable question, but one that rests on a dangerous assumption: that if we only knew more about the killer, then what he did would make sense — and we would know what to do to prevent such a thing from happening again.
The assumption that we can make policy based on individual stories is
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