Josh Barro, Columnist

Harder Than Gun Control: People Control

December 28, 2012 at 3:46 PM UTC

Josh Barro is the lead writer for the Ticker, Bloomberg View's blog on economics, finance and politics. His primary areas of interest include tax and fiscal policy, state and local government, and planning and land use. Previously, Barro was a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a commercial real estate banker at Wells Fargo. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard and lives in Queens, New York.

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Byron York has a column today about gun owners' reaction to gun-controlproposals. His takeaway: Certain restrictions on so-called assault weapons arepolitically viable but won't have much impact on violent crime. He closes withthis thought:

In the end, fixing the problem will have toinvolve dealing more decisively with crazy people like the Newtown shooter, aswell as other mass killers. And that will require entirely different measuresthan regulating guns.