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When I saw that the Dallas Morning News had a multi-part series on gun tracing focused largely on guns recovered in Mexico, I couldn't help myself from cringing. The DMN editorial board has been a vocal supporter of gun control in the past, and I assumed that this series would slant heavily in favor of the claims of anti-gun activists that Mexico's violence can only be curbed by restricting our own right to keep and bear arms.
While the paper's reporting does feature anti-gun advocates like Global Action Against Violence's Jonathan Lowy, who's helping the Mexican government sue U.S. gunmakers over cartel violence, I was surprised to see the reporters actually took a fairly nuanced look at what gun traces can and can't tell us about crime.
When I saw that the Dallas Morning News had a multi-part series on gun tracing focused largely on guns recovered in Mexico, I couldn't help myself from cringing. The DMN editorial board has been a vocal supporter of gun control in the past, and I assumed that this series would slant heavily in favor of the claims of anti-gun activists that Mexico's violence can only be curbed by restricting our own right to keep and bear arms.
While the paper's reporting does feature anti-gun advocates like Global Action Against Violence's Jonathan Lowy, who's helping the Mexican government sue U.S. gunmakers over cartel violence, I was surprised to see the reporters actually took a fairly nuanced look at what gun traces can and can't tell us about crime.
