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Kevin Drum is dismayed that the Economist has printed a letter from Lott:
With-gun robberies are three times as likely as with-knife robberies to be fatal to the victim[1], and it seems plausible that this lethality extends to other crimes. Andy Freeman said:
Crime statistics for the last 12 months in NSW have been released. Most crime categories have decreased significantly.
Dean Payne writes: