have the attachment to them? david frum? leah is saying one thing that is true and one thing alarmingly false. the thing false is the suggestion there are other alternatives that would work better as she says in the article more narrowly tailored. the alternatives to gun control are more intrusive, coercive and expensive. for example, if we identify older men at risk of depression 23 million men in the united states over the age of 65. a lot of people we have to inspect. a lot of domestic disputes and young men at the risk of violence and the overwhelmingly predicative factor about those young men is race. our screening is going to be highly racially loaded. the reason this debate is so complicated is because the obvious and correct answer is so politically prohibited. the intellectual debate is simple, the political is complicated. my solution the thing that leah s article that is true is that the interventions that are
reported that have caused now about $200 billion in damage, and in the wake of a mass killing in las vegas, that has killed almost 60 people and wounded, you know, 400 or 500 others, we have a party, the republican party, that is saying the right response to both of those things for their kids and the future of the country is to do nothing. and that is a travesty. well, and, you know, as leah, you point out, i pointed out, there is essentially a ban on doing any kind of research on this issue. when we come back, so is gun control the answer? maybe not. leah libresco will tell us what she found when she studied the subject. non-insulin victoza® lowers a1c, and now reduces cardiovascular risk. victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill. (avo) and for people with type 2 diabetes
thomas friedman the author of thank you for being late. he is, of course, also a new york times op-ed columnist. his column this week envisioned how different it would have been if the las vegas shooter had been muslim. david frum is a senior editor at the atlantic his article for that publication was mass shootings don t lead to inaction they lead to loosening gun restrictions . and leah libresco is a stat ta stigs who used to write for 538. i will tell you about her piece in just a moment. tom, let me ask you what you meant when you said that this event would have been dealt with very differently if the guy had been a muslim? well, let s begin by the fact, fareed, that had this been an attack by a muslim related to isis or al qaeda it would have been the second largest terrorist attack in america largest terrorist attack since 9/11. and we know how president trump reacts to those kind of events, how society we react. the president immediately tweets