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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: guns
After Martin Bryant murdered 35 people at Port Arthur, Prime Minister John Howard got new laws enacted that banned semi-automatic long guns. At the time, I felt that was bad policy. Since almost all most gun killings involve just one...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:25 PM • 23 Comments •
Category: guns
Glenn Reynolds argues that if only more people had guns, there would be fewer mass shootings. Unfortunately he gets his facts wrong. If there were more responsible, armed people on campuses, mass murder would be harder....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:51 PM • 89 Comments •
Category: guns
A Harvard School of Public Health Press Release describes a new study by Miller, Hemenway and Azreal: In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of homicide,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:34 PM • 182 Comments •
Category: suicide
The National Academy of Sciences panel on firearms and violence has reported its findings. The press release says: There is no credible evidence that "right-to-carry" laws, which allow qualified adults to carry concealed handguns, either decrease or increase violent crime....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:45 PM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
