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Risk factors aren't mutually exclusive. People can advocate and the government can act on more than one issue at a time.



People should pursue risk mitigation strategies which are efficient at the margins, if at all.

I would capture marginal utility by making life more risky and less fearful, so I'm certainly not going to accept the piss-poor risk reduction returns of going after assault rifles.

Do some research on who is actually dying, who is killing, and with what weapons. I think no honest and well-adjusted person who does that can agree with popular gun control initiatives.




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