Mark Kleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I must say I find the whole tone of this thread rather shocking on a > scholarly list.� Some people are married to the idea that gun > controls cause crime.� The UK instituted gun controls, and crime > fell, according to the best evidence we have.� Instead of > questioning their theories, the proponents of "more guns less crime" > are questioning the data, even if it means relying on newspaper > accounts of what interested and ignorant politicians have to say.� I > doubt this argument would be happening here if the victimization > survey showed crime up, rather than down.
As the reponses to your post demonstrate, scholarly comments are few and far between on the list these days. It was much better when Eugene was able to spare the time the moderate the list. Anyway, I felt I owed it to everybody to let you know the reason why I'm basically quitting the list. My thanks to everybody for all the interesting discussions and extra special thanks to Eugene for his sterling service in providing the list. If anyone is interested, I posted my thoughts on the British Crime Survey on my blog: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/2004/08#bcs -- Tim _______________________________________________ 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 Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
