Just What the Neighborhood Needs: A New Gun-control Plan.

Guess what? Now that the number of fatal and non-fatal injuries may hit an all-time high for one year, a new gun-control organization has appeared. I’m talking about an outfit called 97Percent, which is basically a website touting a new piece of research allegedly proving that just about everyone in America will support laws that reduce the violence committed with the use of guns.

Well, it’s not really new research unless you define research as getting on the phone and talking to a bunch of pre-screened people who will answer questions that you believe are relevant or germane to the issue or issues being researched.

But what if the questions you ask the so-called ‘balanced’ group of respondents are full of sh*t? What if the questions exhibit a complete lack of understanding about how and why gun violence occurs?

What this new group is very good at doing is getting noticed by the national media, such as a major article in The Washington Post. The author of this piece publishes regularly in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, et. al., and she has a hyphenated last name. She’s really going to know how to understand and explain the issue of guns, right?

But let’s get back to the so-called research that 97Percent believes creates a solid basis for figuring out how we can go about reducing the behavior which has killed and seriously injured at least 223 Americans over past three days — and…