Is there anything you'd be willing to fight a war for?

[JasonBlack]

(10-20-2022, 06:04 PM)David Horn Wrote: You do realize that the gun lobby, especially the faction that represents the gun industry itself, successfully lobbied to keep the collection and retention of data on gun-related adccidents, suicides and homocides illegal in most places and aggregated data illegal at the national level. That's why the CDC -- by law -- can't study the subject. So your counter argument rings massively hollow. Just as a single point: gun-related crimes in New Zealand and Switzerland are low because ownership requires a license and each weapon is registered. Resales are formal and documented, just like the transfer of a automobile. The unfit are weeded out and the others are fully tracked. You OK with that?

When did this happen (asking out of genuine curiosity, I want to look it up). In either event, Thomas Sowell addresses much of the data we do have available (often going back over 200 years), and refutes some of the more commonly cited studies. For example, people often make hasty comparisons between the US and places like the UK or Australia, when New York had over 5x the murder rate of London as early as 200 years ago (ie, before either country had modern notions of gun laws).