Rate of American Gun Violence found to be Inversely Proportional to that of Journalist Starvation. Rate of American Gun Violence found to be Inversely Proportional to that of Journalist Starvation.By Erik Greenfield on January 14, 2020“Roughly every sixty rounds, a reporter puts on a pound” explained Sam Weston, an agricultural scientist and professor of the University of Virginia. “But, the violence is only one aspect of, well, the violence.”