Statements like that one don’t drive a particular agenda, but they are effective platforms on which to start building solutions. Statements like the ones peppering the*Atlantic article are actively harmful to the process of finding solutions to either automotive-related deaths*or*firearms-related deaths, because they focus on predetermined conclusions. You can’t do science that way, you can’t improve the human condition that way, and it’s depressing that some of our country’s best minds continue to work that way. Luckily for all of us, there are still people who work on improving crash resistance and ameliorating the root causes of violent crime anyway. There are still people who are focused on truth, not agenda. Those people, like Woody Guthrie’s guitar, are machines that kill — and they kill everything from fascism to socialism.
