focus on the murder rates at the hands of a gun? i strictly focused on gun-related murder rates because, obviously, that would be the crime rate most affected by any form of gun control. i know some other studies looked at murder rates in general which, of course, included murders committed by other weapons or other means, or sometimes they focused@ on violent crime which is an extremely broad category including things like rape, robbery, so on and so forth. and i decided strictly to focus on murder rates. jenna: if i could, professor, one of the things you wrote in your piece, you mentioned in the conclusion of your results you also say there may, however, be with other explanations for these results. i d like as we finish up here for you to tell us about what other explanations there might be, and since we started with public policy, what do you think your data tells us about what direction we should go when it comes to public policy and gun control? well, concerning the