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Posted on February 28, 2018June 7, 2025
Michael Bilow
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Opinion: Guns — The Facts, the History, the Philosophy

I am an outlier in the debate about guns. I’m a Northeasterner, and most of my friends are very unfamiliar with guns. There are exceptions, but on social media the most common view I see expressed is to wonder why anyone would want a gun, to wonder why they are legal for civilians to own […]

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Posted on January 10, 2018June 7, 2025
Michael Bilow
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Analysis: Are Guns a Public Health Problem?

Whether to consider deaths and injuries from guns a public health problem, and therefore to bring to bear the statistical tools of epidemiology, has been a substantial controversy since at least the 1990s. Gun rights attorney Don Kates was the lead author with four professors of biology and medicine of a seminal and influential 1994 […]