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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
February 14, 1994
Category: Kellermann
Frank Crary said: The correlation with gun ownership is equally easy to explain. In the neighborhoods studied, a large fraction of the gun owners are either criminals (confirmed by the study's correlation previous convictions) The study found a correlation between...
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February 9, 1994
Category: Washington DC
pim writes: Are you arguing that the increase in D.C.'s suicide and homicide rates is related to a law passed 12 years earlier ? Thomas Grant Edwards said: I don't see why this is difficult to imagine. It might have...
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Category: Washington DC
Joe B. Simpson said: The New England Journal of Medicine. 1991 Dec 5. 325 (23). pp 1615-1620. Special Article: Effects Of Restrictive Licensing Of Handguns On Homicide And Suicide In The District Of Columbia. Loftin-Colin. McDowall-David. Wiersema-Brian. Cottey-Talbert-J. Note that...
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February 7, 1994
Category: Orlando
Nate Lund said: Point Blank, by Gary Kleck, page 134: "From October 1966 to March 1967, the Orlando Police Department trained more that 2500 women to use guns. Organized in response to demands from citizens worried about a sharp increase...
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February 5, 1994
Category: knives
Michael J. Phelps writes: Wright (1983) compare handgun attacks with long bladed knife attacks; as do Wilson & Sherman (1961 p 643) with findings of: mortality rate for handguns: 16.8% ice picks: 14.3 butcher knives: 13.3 Kleck has made a...
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Category: silly
Nosy wrote: Saying all firearms are phallic symbols is stupid and a lie. Bizarre. Nosy is apparently unaware of the difference between a phallus and a phallic symbol. No, the whole concept of a "phallic symbol" is discredited and worthless...
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