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Bert Hyman (bert@visi.com) wrote:

: Reasoning? Well, you can judge for yourself:

: http://www.rj.org/rac/pubs/guns.html

thanks, Bert, but the text you refer has a line:

> I will not rehearse the arguments for gun control; they have already
>   been endorsed by this Assembly

I read further and it had some numbers, but I could not build 
a convincing argument out of them, ie. it refers N of firearms
population has, N of felons who bought guns (where?), etc -
but it does not say what % of legally owned guns were used or
stolen or bought for crime.

Yoffe also quotes Canada as an example of _successful_ policies,
but at the end they quote that Canada passed the gun control laws
in _1998_ - and there is no data on what was the effect of that law.

His reference to the Jewish sources (Isaiya, Midrash Rabba) is
equally vague - given so many centuries of Jewish society, there
is probably more work on this issue [even I am aware that there is
a prohibition to sell arms to non-Jews, so he could use at least
this reference, assuming it is applicable].

anyway, maybe you can refer me to a text that specifically build a case
for this position

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