On 11/7/04 8:44 PM, "Phil Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> " It's deja vu all over again." -- Yogi Berra
>
> Shades of Kellerman -- they are at it again.
>
> First, to paraphrase an statement John R. Lott, Jr. frequently is known to
> say -- a gun control law has costs and benefits. It potentially might
> prevent harm which is a benefit. But, it might cost society by preventing a
> person from defeating a criminal attack because the prevented him from
> owning a firearm. This paper is rather typical of ideological pro
> gun-control pseudo-science in that it addresses only one side of this two
> sided equation. This paper addresses the potential benefit of guns being
> absent (banned by law) by counting lives lost that might have been saved,
> but it ignores the potential of lives lost (and other injury to decent
> citizens not prevented) by not accounting for lives saved and injuries which
> have been prevented by a firearm being available in the home.
>
> I'm tempted to ask what a study might show about the risk of being killed in
> an automobile accident in household which own a car? I'm sure it is many
> times higher than exists for households that do not own an automobile.
>
Exactly. The risk of being killed in a plane crash are surely several
hundred times greater for an airline pilot than for those of us who fly only
once or twice a year, just because of increased exposure, but that relative
risk doesn't make anyone tell their children not to grow up to be pilots.
--
Bob Woolley
St. Paul, MN
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country
as poker.... Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kindhearted, liberal,
sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a 'flush.' It is
enough to make one ashamed of one's species."
-- Mark Twain
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