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13 Days of Gun Control Solutions that Save Lives - Principle #5

The Douzaine Principles for Reducing Gun Violence represent the first-ever comprehensive framework for creating/evaluating gun control ideas

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13 Days of Gun Control Solutions that Save Lives

Gun control research...an issue that gets raised often. Do we have "enough?" Do we need to know more? Can we act? Should we wait? What do we know? In short: No. Yes. Yes. No. More is known actually than is often portrayed. And now onto the related Douzaine Principle, #5. Read. Share. Act. It will not change otherwise...

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Douzaine Principles #5: Gun control solutions that save lives must be grounded in evidence-based research. Where that does not exist, practice-based evidence, and then rational inferences from existing research of what might work. Evaluation of efforts is needed regardless. (Foundational Principle)

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