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Jun
27
The Denver Post article, ”Book goes inside the minds of gun criminals,” by Monte Whaley, in the 06-26-09 issue of the paper, deals with 73 criminals who used firearms in the commission of one or more crimes. The upcoming book, Guns, Violence, and Criminal Behavior: The Offender’s Perspective, apparently offers interesting insights into criminal gun use among [...]
Jul
13
Dick Morris, “Heller and “schizophrenic” attitude about guns (Part 2)
July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
In Part 1, we discussed what I believe to be the fact that the recent Heller Supreme Court case merely affirmed 200 years of “Standard Model” legal precedents that the Second Amendment clearly recognizes an individual right to keep and bear arms. In Part 2, we will deal with Mr. Morris’s belief that “strict gun controls” save [...]
May
20
Good Review of Major Gun Issue Research
May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
Ran across a good annotated review of major research in the debate on guns by bodo. “Critical Juncture, Some Notes on Gun Control, B27111/Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:28:09/”War on Terror”
http://bodo.gnn.tv/blogs/27111/Some_Notes_On_Gun_Control.
One interesting thing about the gun control debate is the number of honest scientists, who start out with the hypothesis that guns somehow [...]