Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
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I was thinking yesterday about the sheer rediculousness of the proponents of concealed-carry laws. The argument (as I understand it) is that random street crime will be deterred if a substantial portion of the population is exercising its R2KBA freedoms, and if the criminals don't know exactly which ones are armed. Under this theory, Snake won't hold up the Kwik-E-Mart because he's behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance over whether Apu is carrying a piece.
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Theory, shmeery. Get your hands dirty with some statistical data: a econemtrician tries to prove that after controlling for (income, age distribution, racial composition, and other variables) crime rates have a strong negative correllation with rates of gun ownership.
More Guns, Less Crime
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