DrZox writes: >seen this? > >New Book Says Science Provides Answers to Gun Violence >4/1/2004
and quotes from an article at: >http://www.jointogether.org/z/0,2522,570165,00.html The book is shown by the publisher at http://www.press.umich.edu/titles/11405.html >Feature Story >by Dick Dahl > ... >To Hemenway, the small tale demonstrates a larger American truth. "For >me, the story illustrates an important point--the immediate reaction to >a problem for many people in the United States is to get a gun," he >writes. "Yet it turns out that this response can often exacerbate the ^^^^^^^^^^ >problem, while other actions may be far more effective." In this "small tale" it is clear that another action worked. Perhaps it was more effective - although we are told that guns weren't used "no shots were fired." So we have the author's claim based on no evidence. But note the claim above that the gun solution exacerbated the problem! Since the guns weren't used, this couldn't be so! Or perhaps it isn't a false claim by the author - but rather a distortion by Dick Dahl - in which he takes the author's general statement and juxtaposes this with the "small tale" and pretends that it these are equivalent. --henry schaffer > ... _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
