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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
March 29, 1997
Category: handguns
A handgun is four times as likely to be involved in an accidental wounding as a long gun. Dr. Paul H. Blackman writes: I believe the discussions on accidents with long guns vs. handguns sometimes vary from numbers of handguns...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:31 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 13, 1997
Category: knives
Peter Proctor wrote: An equivalent wound is ( by definition ) an equivalent wound . Absent LET effects, it doesn't matter much where it came from. Oh, so your statement was a tautology? By "equivalent", you meant of equivalent lethality?...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:57 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 11, 1997
Category: burglary
Steve Fischer wrote: Place a large placard either in the window of your home/apt or on a sign on the grass saying: THIS IS A GUN-FREE HOME ..... then let's wait a couple of months and see how many of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 9, 1997
Category: international
Scott Marshall writes: Comparison of Murder Rate per 100,000 in Capital Cities Amsterdam - 38 I don't think so. Amsterdam has a population of 713,000, so this is 270 murders. If you look here you will discover that in the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:14 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 3, 1997
Category: knives
Peter H. Proctor writes: E.g., the original issue was whether Pistols are much less deadly than long guns because pistol fatalities are mostly proportional to the size of the permanent wound channel. Doubly wrong. First, the issue addressed by my...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:15 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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