Re: Switzerland vs. US (was Re: Rights and

• Subject: Re: Switzerland vs. US (was Re: Rights and
• From: lambert@cse.unsw.edu.au (Tim Lambert)
• Date: 9 Feb 94 09:39:37
• In-reply-to: tedwards@eng.umd.edu's message of 9 Feb 1994 07:02:37 GMT
• Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.usa.misc, alt.politics.libertarian, talk.politics.guns, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
• Organization: Computer Science and Engineering, University of New Soth Wales
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>>>>> On 9 Feb 1994 07:02:37 GMT, tedwards@eng.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards) said:
> pim@nepac.ucsd.edu writes:
>>Are you arguing that the increase in D.C.'s suicide and homicide rates is 
>>related to a law passed 12 years earlier ?

> I don't see why this is difficult to imagine.  It might have taken 12 years
> for most of the legal grandfathered guns in the hands of average citizens
> to filter into the hands of criminals, seeing as how it is impossible
> for a D.C. resident to legally sell his gun. 

1. Is it?  Why can't they sell it outside DC?

2. Are you saying that it takes 12 years to illegally sell a gun??  If
you are saying that this supposed transfer happened gradually over 12
years then surely your theory predicts a gradual increase over 12
years, rather than a decrease for ten years and then a sharp increase
(which is what actually occured).

3. The sharp increase also occured in the suburbs of Washington
outside DC.  Did the DC law cause this too?

> I will add that I think the Drug War is the main cause of high crime in D.C.
> But the gun ban removed an important crime deterrant.  

Perhaps it did, but there is no evidence to support this claim.

Tim

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