RE: More Guns, Less Crime?

2001-01-22 Thread Warnick, Walter
Amplifying Fred's point below, murder rates in the United States reflect very intense pockets. For example, the FBI Uniform Crime Report shows that Washington, DC, had a 1998 murder rate of 50 per 100,000 (down from recent years), compared to the U.S. rate of 8.4 reported by Girard below.

RE: More Guns, Less Crime?

2001-01-22 Thread jsamples
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of I agree with you--I don't believe that public health bureaucrats will necessarily be more impartial. The point of Ropeik's article was that, initially, the EPA and the automobile industry each wasted

RE: More Guns, Less Crime?

2001-01-22 Thread jsamples
Krugman's original attack on Cato et al. was remarkably anti-liberal (in the classical sense or specifically in the sense of supporting a marketplace in ideas). Krugman's underlying assumption (which, I think, Bill Dickens shares to some extent) was that there are two kinds of intellectuals

Change of email address

2001-01-22 Thread Edward Lopez
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Think Tank Bias' (formerly More Guns, Less Crime?)

2001-01-22 Thread William Dickens
Bryan Caplan Wrote: I don't think we really disagree here. Less than I thought when I misinterpreted what you were saying. I thought you were implying that we were government funded and wouldn't bite the hand that feeds us. If that is not what you are saying then we are closer to agreement