If we're serious about reducing total homicides via reducing the number and/or types of weapons in general circulation, it makes a great deal more sense to go after handguns. Given the number of people that own handguns in this country, that is naturally a much more difficult proposition.Of course, we're not particularly serious about it.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
For now, this
We'll get back to the specifics of President Obama's exercise in kabuki later, perhaps this evening, but for now I'm going to quote Brian, who makes a salient point over at his place (and you should read the rest):
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Go after handguns? You mean like Chicago, New York City, and Washington DC?
Not quite sure that the statistics suggest that handgun bans make us any safer, to put it mildly.
Not quite sure that the statistics suggest that handgun bans make us any safer, to put it mildly.
Yep. Brian knows that. We all know that. Which is kinda the point.
I don't think handgun bans work when you can readily get them one county or one state over. I think whether a national ban would work is an open question, simply because we haven't tried it.
And I fully acknowledge there are (several) reasons to be skeptical about that, too. But that wasn't really the point of what I wrote.
But that wasn't really the point of what I wrote.
Yep. Which is why I've recommended people to go read what you did write.
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