A Musing on Gun Control
As controversial as the issue is, you might think that gun control would have been studied to death by now. And you'd probably be right. Nevertheless, when the Centers for Disease Control reviewed the extant scientific literature, it found that there was insufficient evidence to evaluate the effectiveness of gun control laws. Naturally, they concluded that more research is needed. You can read their findings here. Or you can just read between the lines. If gun control laws provided any signigficant public safety benefits, how come they're so darned hard to find?
In other news, the BBC reports that, in an article published in the British Medical Journal, researchers have determined that long pointy knives have no legitimate culinary purpose and should be banned.
I kid you not.
In other news, the BBC reports that, in an article published in the British Medical Journal, researchers have determined that long pointy knives have no legitimate culinary purpose and should be banned.
I kid you not.
posted by Jack | 6:58 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for the warning about the picture on the BBC report link.
Regarding gun control, maybe it's my Texas upbringing, but, I've always felt that if we were all packing like in the old west, there would actually be less killing. The death PENALTY might not deter crime but the chance that you might be shot on the spot if you attack someone, could be an excellent deterrent.
I believe in guns for protection because of the history of the United States and its tendency to be more violent than other nations. It is obvious, however, that countries which prohibit hand guns have 65 to 75 gun related deaths compared to 10,000 gun deaths per year in the States. I think it is misleading to take the Michael Moore approach and compare apples with oranges, but there are indeed significantly lower rates of gun deaths in Europe and Canada.
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