Facebook is a powerful thing.  Before I wrote the previous post on Gun Violence and Gun Ownership rates I simply posted the second graph from that post to my Facebook wall.  48 hours later, is has been sent all over the world, shared over 1000 times that I know of, and it has gathered a [...]

After the recent tragic school shooting in Connecticut, USA, I saw a lot of traffic on my facebook site focused either on the need for stronger gun control, or the ineffectiveness of  stronger gun control when it comes to  reducing the likelihood of these kinds of tragedies.  That last bit of the sentence is critical.  Nobody argues that [...]