…if people were attuned to the causes of the overwhelming majority of gun deaths (guns and gangs, not mass shootings, with handguns, not rifles), the focus on gun control efforts would be very different. But ignorance redirects the focus to regulating law-abiding citizens with weapons seldom used in gun deaths.

– Josh Blackman, as a comment upon Ilya Somin’s article on Gun Control, Mass Shootings, and Political Ignorance.

(h/t Karl Rehn)

But I guess on this topic, ignorance is an acceptable excuse and solid foundation upon which to build policy and law.

Go figure.