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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: USA
Viktor writes: Of course, we know here in America that the highest crime rates for the past 50 years are in the cities that have the strictest gun control laws (Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Detroit) imposed on innocent...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:44 PM • •
Category: USA
Lawrence Kennon writes: The following documents exactly the kind of "junk science" being foisted off on the public by the medical profession, and in particular the CDC and the NEJM. It does nothing of sort. There are dozens of falsehoods,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:48 AM • •
Category: USA
No I have not. I quote from page 173: "there is a positive relationship [of firearms ownership] with firearms murder but not with criminal homicide generally." See table 9.2 on page 174. I should note again that Bordua felt that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:14 AM • •
Category: USA
Pim van Meurs writes: Of course there will always be an uncertainty in the findings that's why there are statistical error bounds and statistical significance bounds. However in case of gun ownership at city level Kleck showed the causal direction...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:59 AM • •
Category: USA
Dean Payne writes: "For example, in 1974 Massachusetts passes the Bartley-Fox Law, which requires a special license to carry a handgun outside the home or business. The law is supported by a mandatory prison sentence. Studies by Glenn Pierce and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:43 AM • •
Category: USA
Diederich Andrew Richard said: What you need to know before the fight begins is that the gun control lobby has no intention of fighting a good fight based on truth and accuracy. They intend to use disinformation, inaccuracy and lies...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:33 PM • •
Category: USA
Diederich Andrew Richard said: According to a 1986 survey of 2,000 imprisoned felons: 57% believed encountering an armed victim is the worst thing that could happen. False. The closest thing I could find in Wright and Rossi [1] to this...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:42 PM • •
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Life Lines 05.16.2012
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