Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy( Firearms study)

[oldno7]

Never trust these Ivy league schools......oh---Wait......


http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

I know--everyone wants answers but no one is willing to read.

[Sombeech]

Dang, I'm not gonna read all that! If you could summarize it for me, and make sure to tweak the stats so they support my point of view, then I can share what you summarized for me on facebook because the facts prove my opinions are the right ones.

Then if I get Likes, it only confirms I have the right idea, because I've only connected with friends that share my point of view, so the opposition to my political ideas will be minimal.

Because that's the definition of open minded tolerance.

:bandit:

[Scott Card]

Interesting quote:

"On the other hand, in nations that have ex‐
perienced high and rising violent crime rates, the legislative reac‐
tion has generally been to enact increasingly severe antigun laws.
This is futile, for reducing gun ownership by the law‐abiding citi‐
zenry—the only ones who obey gun laws—does not reduce vio‐
lence or murder. The result is that high crime nations that ban guns
to reduce crime end up having both high crime and stringent gun
laws, while it appears that low crime nations that do not signifi‐
cantly restrict guns continue to have low violence rates." Pg. 672 last paragraph.

I scanned only part of the article. Pretty interesting stuff. Seems guns are not the problem. Seems that George H.W. Bush had it right. We need to be a "kinder gentler nation". Seems that violence, according to the study, is a cultural, soci- economic thing primarily. Guns, in or out of the hands of people, won't change the crime rates, changing attitudes and hearts will.