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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: Washington DC
Jim Lindgren believes that a post by Carl Bogus on the DC handgun ban is uninformed. Bogus wrote: A careful study that compared the nine year period before the ban was enacted with the nine years following enactment, and then...
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Category: Washington DC
Lott has an article in the National Review Online where he claims that the Washingtonian DC handgun ban caused crime increases: Crime rose significantly after the gun ban went into effect. In the five years before Washington's ban in...
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Category: Washington DC
Lott (along with Eli Lehrer) has an editorial in the Washington Times which claims that the 1976 gun ban caused crime to increase. D.C. residents need more protection: Crime has risen significantly since the gun ban went into effect. In...
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Category: Washington DC
James B. Clark writes: Here's your table. You didn't include the data from 1967-1972, so I have no idea what it looks like. If you pick 1975, 1976, 1977, or 1978 I would bet that a decline in the homicide...
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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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