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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: Australia
There's an election coming up in Australia. I haven't blogged about it because other people are doing a much better job than I ever could. A special plug though, for Tom Vogelgesang, who is running for Senate on a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:54 PM • 15 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Australia
A commenter on my earlier post on John "I hate guns" Howard wondered: "If Latham wins, will the public generally credit this issue?" Some shooters have a plan to try to make it an issue: You Can Send John...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:06 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Australia
Matthew Yglesias and Mark Kleiman have both written about the Assault Weapons Ban. I agree with Yglesias that the ban doesn't make sense since it bans weapons by name rather than by some characteristic that makes them dangerous. I've...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:26 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Australia
After reviving my first ever online post. I've dug up my first ever post on guns. Phil Ronzone posted this to soc.culture.australian: Of even more interest is the TREMENDOUSLY larger per capita rape numbers in the "non-violent peace loving"...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:48 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Australia
Jason Soon has a series of posts on gun control in Australia here, here and here. I felt that the laws here before 1996 were about right and I do not think that the 1996 laws were a good...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:15 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Australia
Say Uncle suggests that I am "anti-gun" and implies that I "favor more gun control in the US". I am not "anti-gun". Here is a picture of me (on left) with a gun. Unless you think that Lott is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:57 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Australia
After misrepresenting my views in this statement, I don't know if you actually found Dr. Lott engaged in a lie or not, but I do know that your irrational desire to see victims disarmed and murdered by criminals puts...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:32 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Australia
Ross Wilmoth writes: Thanks for the stats Tim. Do you think that the reduction between the 1975 and 1989 surveys could be due to them being either side of the registration legislation? In 1975 it wasn't illegal to own a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:28 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Australia
Mark Addinall writes: Tim Lambert writes: I looked in the reference you cite: "How Firearm Crime is Declining" It claims that the number of firearms owned in Australia has increased from about 2.5 million to about 4 million (Graph 1)....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:57 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Australia
"Stephen Heyer" writes: When confronted with the fact that "In the last 16 years the number of guns owned in Australia has quadrupled. The number of firearm deaths have dropped by 46% in that period and guns are being used...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:04 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
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