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0 pointsjdunck13y ago0 comments

This is a thing I want personally. Most recently the excitement and focus on Sandy Hook has frustrated me. 1 Sandy Hook occurs every day in the United States. We just shrug off the sad local news story and continue eating dinner. The fact that there is sudden interest in discussing gun policy is great. The fact that the discussion is so badly informed is not great.

I can tell you that I will work inside Causes to make it a thing we do.

EDIT: to be clear, I don't mean informed gun policy, I mean informed policy in general. Gun policy is just a recent example.

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mattdeboard13y ago· 1 in thread

>Most recently the excitement and focus on Sandy Hook has frustrated me. 1 Sandy Hook occurs every day in the United States.

Dude, no. "An act of gun violence" is not "20 elementary school children killed in their elementary school." There is not 1 Sandy Hook every day. It is the Olympics of moral equivocation to boil what happened there to "an act of gun violence." Why would you be frustrated that people got more worked up over 20 little kids being murdered in their classrooms than other "acts of gun violence"?

jdunckOP13y ago

30 people per day are killed with guns in the US. Some of those people are kids. Probably less than 20 kids per day, you're right.

I do not hold a child's life higher than an adult's. I realize that's a weird thing to lots of people. Maybe that's weird to you?

Anyway, I do agree that a single actor causing all that harm is a different thing, yes. We should fix that. I just hate that we ignore ongoing disasters because it doesn't make a good news story.

EDIT: I didn't downvote Matt and don't think people should. Don't downvote things you disagree with. His is a valid response and this is a place for discussion (right)?

bicknergseng13y ago· 1 in thread

This is exactly what I've been thinking. I'd love to track the statistical outcomes of legislation in a way that's meaningful to both the public and politicians. I know some non-profits do similar stuff in some areas, but I'd like to turn data into a real tool for politics.

jdunckOP13y ago

We're hiring. jeremy at causes.com

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