by Ferdinand Bardamu 07.21.2009The ostensible purpose of gun control laws is to prevent violent crimes such as murder and manslaughter. Therefore, looking at violent crime data, we’d expect to see a correlation between the strength of a state’s gun control laws and that state’s amount of violent crime. To test this, I used violent crime data for each [...]
Read more → by Ferdinand Bardamu 07.20.2009The long-form post I had planned for today is postponed until tomorrow. Until then, here’s something to tide you over: Have you noticed that there are countless wedding magazines, catalogs, and stores aimed at women, but none for men? At the same time, have you noticed that there are countless anti-marriage websites, essays, and blogs [...]
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