Today’s Solutions: July 15, 2025

A recent analysis found that the annual National Rifle Association convention historically coincides with a temporary—and dramatic—drop in gun-related injuries in the US. Strangely enough, when some 80,000 gun owners descend on Dallas for the annual convention, the gun injury rate across the country is likely to drop nearly 20 percent. The findings of this study contradict the idea that training more people how to operate guns will lower the gun injury rate, an assertion that the NRA often makes.

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