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A recent study placing the costs of murder at $17.25 million is attracting a great deal of attention. I hope it will help make the case for crime prevention initiatives at a time of diminishing state budgets. As with many cost-benefit studies, the number itself cannot convey the human impact of what it is estimating [...]
Archive for the ‘Firearms’ Category
July 9th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Firearms
Chicago Police Officer Thor Soderberg, very much missed.
April 6th, 2010
Category: Firearms
The man who threatened to kill Sen. Patty Murray is the holder of a concealed-carry permit.
August 30th, 2009
Category: Firearms
If North Carolina permits a felon to have a firearm, isn’t he still covered by the Federal felon-in-possession law?
August 10th, 2008
One of the really great things about being American is knowing your country is exporting the best of its political and artistic culture to places that really need it. In the sixties and seventies, for example, Europeans watching US TV shows started asking pointed questions about stuff like habeas corpus and refusing to answer questions [...]
September 21st, 2007
Category: Firearms, Rudy Giuliani
NPR, reporting on Giuliani’s appearance before the NRA today, had a sound clip in which he asserted that the freedom in the Second Amendment was just as important as all the other freedoms in the Bill of Rights. What kind of nut, including the most dedicated firearm aficionado, could believe such a thing? Or say [...]
