I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post, drawing on my experience at FiveThirtyEight researching gun deaths in America. By the time we published our project, I didn’t believe in many of the interventions I’d heard politicians tout. I was still anti-gun, at least from the point of view of most gun owners, and I don’t want a gun in my home, as I think the risk outweighs the benefits. But I can’t endorse policies whose only … Continue reading The Limits of ‘Common Sense’ Gun Control