Overall, it looks as if MADD had an effect on the rate of drunk driving in America and I suspect an effective approach to gun violence will need a similar organization.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING
MADD started in 1980 and out of curiosity, I downloaded the NHTSA accident files between 1975 and 2010 in five year intervals. For each year, I totaled the Drunk Driving events and made a graph:
The left axis is the number of events. Note that from 1999 on, the category Drunk Driving is overcounted because for some reason the NHTSA counted an event as "Drunk" if ANYONE involved, not just the driver, was drunk.
Overall, it looks as if MADD had an effect on the rate of drunk driving in America and I suspect an effective approach to gun violence will need a similar organization.
Overall, it looks as if MADD had an effect on the rate of drunk driving in America and I suspect an effective approach to gun violence will need a similar organization.
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