Charles Brown writes: >> Many Marxists might say that in balancing the value >> of gun fun against the many gun murders and injuries >> that come with widespread possession ( here "possession >> is nine/tenth of ownership" is cogent) of guns as in >> the US today, it is probably not worth it to have so >> many guns in so many peoples' hands. Better to give >> up the gun fun for the sake of so many victims. >> Shooting deer and target bullseyes is not that >> valuable to society with the unavoidable concomittent.
Sounds like a typical cost/beneft, law and economics type of reasoning. So how would you go about quantifying the "value" of gun fun against the "costs" of murders and injuries? David Shemano _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
