Substack needs a sad face button. I always feel conflicted clicking like on a note like this.

But you’re right. The variable with the greatest explanatory power on gun deaths is number of guns owned. It’s true by city, county, state, and country. It’s true even if you remove the United States as an outlier.

My wife works in education and has to practice active shooter drills and prepare active shooter plans. Somehow we’ve convinced ourselves that this is normal.