[lbo-talk] violent crime up

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jun 15 06:46:48 PDT 2006


On Jun 15, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Matt wrote:


> Wait, "some" is what is dubious. Aren't we concerned about "some"
> when it means "an overwhelming majority". An overwhelming majority
> of gun owners are never going to be violent criminals at all, not just
> never going to *shoot* someone. I think Jordan's point is that the
> case hasn't been made that the legit question - why is the US so
> violent - validly leaps to "well there's all those guns". It seems to
> be just an arm-waving argument.

That's not what I'm saying. In fact I said that guns can't be the explanation because other countries have lots of guns too, along with a lower murder rate.

But it also remains to be explained why we have all those guns.

Doug



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