(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Tim Walters walters at doubtfulpalace.com
Wed Mar 18 01:35:52 PDT 2009


Lane Haygood wrote:

 > The sort of
 > crime that gun ownership is thought to prevent (where the criminal
 > rationally considers that there is a greater risk to his or her own
 > life because of the victim's chance of owning a gun) isn't murder at
 > all. [and a bunch of other stuff that I agree with, and which 
explains  > quite well why I'm tepidly anti-gun-control]

Quite so. But brunians' claim was that gun ownership reduces murder rates.

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