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That is the title of my post<\/a> today on Substack.\u00a0 Frequent readers here will have no problem figuring out the answer.\u00a0 What works is not gun control (which has no predictable effect on the number of murders nor the murder rate), nor going soft on crime, whether it be called “criminal justice reform” or something else equally fuzzy and opaque.<\/p>\n

From more than fifty years’ experience, we know that what works is getting tough and staying tough.\u00a0 The decades of evidence simply leave no room for doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That is the title of my post today on Substack.\u00a0 Frequent readers here will have no problem figuring out the answer.\u00a0 What works is not gun control (which has no predictable effect on the number of murders nor the murder rate), nor going soft on crime, whether it be called “criminal justice reform” or something else equally fuzzy and opaque. From more than fifty years’ experience, we know that what works is getting tough and staying tough.\u00a0 The decades of evidence simply leave no room for doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Actually Works to Suppress "Gun Violence"? - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=6769\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Actually Works to Suppress "Gun Violence"? - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"That is the title of my post today on Substack.\u00a0 Frequent readers here will have no problem figuring out the answer.\u00a0 What works is not gun control (which has no predictable effect on the number of murders nor the murder rate), nor going soft on crime, whether it be called “criminal justice reform” or something else equally fuzzy and opaque. 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