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Ordinarily, I try to shy away from writing about stories that pop up in college newspapers, no matter how egregiously bad they might be. These are journalism students, after all, so I tend to grade their anti-gun nonsense on a bit of a curve. However, I was pleasantly surprised today to see some actual journalism being done by a couple reporters for the
Daily Egyptian, which is the student newspaper for Southern Illinois University. Reporters Jason Flynn and George Weibe pose a simple question about violent crime and Illinois gun laws; “If the [firearm] mortality rate is so low why does the state have such high firearm related arrest rates?”