A report on the Uvalde school shooting released over the weekend left some questioning the accuracy of the National Rifle Association’s long-standing mathematical equation: “The only thing that stops ...
TACOMA, Wash. - An eighth grader in Tacoma got a toy gun as a gift from his math teacher last month. It's ridiculous, said Jawan Campbell, the boy's stepfather. Especially with all the gun violence ...
Regarding the Dec. 1 editorial "Counting the victims": I have always found it interesting what Americans will do in the pursuit of "safety." Lightly drizzling outside? Better drive 20 miles under the ...
Math was one of my supplanting interests. Math matters in the darndest places — but more about that later. These days, “gun control” is a phrase that the National Rifle Association and its supporters ...
If a gun control law saves even a single life, it's worth it. As a mathematician, I call this logical fallacy reasoning by incomplete hypothesis. My favorite example of this form of unreason is the ...
Re Guns Are Good (letter -- Dec. 26): I do not know where Bruce Mills got his figures, but a little simple math causes me to question them. There are 64,000 defensive gun uses in Canada every year?