via Mark Reid: http://mark.reid.name/iem/gun-deaths-vs-gun-ownership.html
I like Jim Boeheim's take:
With his wife, Juli, looking on at the postgame news conference and his young children close by, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim's final remarks were not about his milestone 900th career victory. Instead, he was thinking about two 6-year-old boys who were buried Monday, victims along with 18 other children and six adults in a shooting massacre last week at an elementary school in Connecticut. "If we cannot get the people who represent us to do something about firearms, we are a sad, sad society," Boeheim said Monday night. "If one person in this world, the NRA president, anybody, can tell me why we need assault weapons with 30 shots -- this is our fault if we don't go out there and do something about this. If we can't get this thing done, I don't know what kind of country we have."PS: (12/30/12) It appears that the NRA has been blocking funding for research into gun violence for some time. I think that demonstrates the likelihood of what they expect to find: a link between guns and gun violence (duh). Also see some interesting charts here.
PSS: One of the few good research reports written recently on gun violence I could find: .pdf, site
