When you talk about "the latest Harvard study," do you by any chance mean an article in the "Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy" six years ago? That journal is a student-edited journal with a clear political agenda, not a faculty driven journal. Don Kates is not associated with Harvard University.
Having read the article (http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/org…), I immediately notice that the methodology is severely flawed, and that many of the assumptions are outright preposterous.
The deeper problem is that all the people who are crying out for more guns essentially want a violent fix for the symptoms of crime, but are not prepared to investigate the causes of crime. I suspect for fear that they might have to come to terms with an inconvenient truth.
sbaranha says...
When you talk about "the latest Harvard study," do you by any chance mean an article in the "Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy" six years ago? That journal is a student-edited journal with a clear political agenda, not a faculty driven journal. Don Kates is not associated with Harvard University.
Having read the article (http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/org…), I immediately notice that the methodology is severely flawed, and that many of the assumptions are outright preposterous.
The deeper problem is that all the people who are crying out for more guns essentially want a violent fix for the symptoms of crime, but are not prepared to investigate the causes of crime. I suspect for fear that they might have to come to terms with an inconvenient truth.
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