On Jun 26, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Joseph E. Olson wrote: > "Heller, Guns, and History: The Judicial Invention of Tradition" ( > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2081973 ) > Northeastern University Law Journal, Vol. 3, p. 175, 2011 > Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. > 12-05-25 ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/PIP_Journal.cfm?pip_jrnl=382963 > ) > DAVID KONIG ( > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=340823 ), > Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law > Email: [email protected] > > It is a widely accepted fact that the firearm mortality rate in the > United States exceeds that of any comparable nation.
Screwed the pooch in the very first line. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate) documents the US as having the THIRTEENTH highest firearms mortality rate in a list of 67, behind nations such as South Africa, Brazil, and Thailand, including places where handguns are for all intents and purposes banned to civilians, like Jamaica and Mexico; and ahead of such nations as Switzerland, where most adults possess fully-automatic rifles in their homes. Of course, his response will simply be that none of those are "comparable nations," because he gets to define "comparable." -- Escape the Rat Race for Peace, Quiet, and Miles of Desert Beauty Take a Sanity Break at The Bunkhouse at Liberty Haven Ranch http://libertyhaven.com _______________________________________________ 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.
