Keeping the next gerneration from becoming open carriers.....

[kparker]

Why not, John R. Lott, Jr. does. He comments just yesterday;

Lott is commenting on some of the problems with trying to do cross-nation comparisons. Our local fellow is just glibly assuming they are comparable. Very different.

 

[GunnyG]

Why not, John R. Lott, Jr. does. He comments just yesterday;

His assertion is corroborated here: http://www2.dse.unibo.it/zanella/papers/crime-EP.pdf

"Crime in Europe and the US: Dissecting the “Reversal of Misfortunes”
Paolo Buonanno, Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati, and Giulio Zanella*

February 3, 2011

Summary

Contrary to common perceptions, today both property and violent crimes (with the exception of homicides) are more widespread in Europe than in the US, while the opposite was true thirty years ago. We label this fact as the "reversal of misfortunes". We investigate what accounts for the reversal by studying the causal impact of demographic changes, incarceration, abortion, unemployment and immigration on crime. For this we use time series data (1970-2008) from seven European countries and the U.S. We find that the demographic structure of the population and the incarceration rate are important determinants of crime. Our results suggest that a tougher incarceration policy may be an effective way to contrast crime in Europe. Our analysis does not provide information on how incarceration policy should be made tougher nor does it provide an answer to the question whether a such a policy would also be efficient from a cost-benefit point of view. We leave this to future research. ...



* Buonanno: University of Bergamo, Italy, paolo.buonanno@unibg.it. Drago: University of Naples Parthenope, Italy, and CSEF, fdrago@uniparthenope.it. Galbiati: CNRS-EconomiX and Department of Economics Sciences-Po, France, galbiatir@gmail.com. Zanella: University of Bologna, Italy, giulio.zanella@unibo.it. We wish to thank Horst Entorf, Denis Fougere, Annie Kensey, David Paton, Giovanni Peri, and Ben Vollaard for sharing data, as well as the editor Jan Van Ours, three anonymous referees, our discussants at the 52nd EP Panel Meeting (Jerome Adda and Bas Jacobs), the Panel Meeting participants, and Roger Bowles, Philip Cook, Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, Rene Levy, Olivier Marie, Inigo Ortiz, Aurelie Ouss, Arnaud Philippe, Rodrigo Soares, Christian Traxler and Pablo Velasquez for useful suggestions."


and as it was presented to CEPR's Economic Policy Fifty-Second Panel Meeting in 2010: http://dev3.cepr.org/meets/wkcn/9/979/papers/Buonnano_etal.pdf

 

[jsanchez]

One of the slides in Prof. Connor's power point said studies show that youth violence has gone down as violent video game use has gone up. I would like to know more about that study.

 

[Grapeshot]

One of the slides in Prof. Connor's power point said studies show that youth violence has gone down as violent video game use has gone up. I would like to know more about that study.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/0...ied-to-violence-in-high-risk-youth/58934.html

http://www.tamiu.edu/~cferguson/Video Games 1 Year.pdf

 

[OC for ME]

I wonder how many violent crimes are interdicted by the lawful use of a firearm in those other countries.

 

[jsanchez]

http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/0...ied-to-violence-in-high-risk-youth/58934.html

http://www.tamiu.edu/~cferguson/Video Games 1 Year.pdf

Thanks good stuff, I'm looking at it.

 

[jsanchez]

Ok, I finished watching the 2nd episode. My take on it, the first guy to speak is a history professor, anti-gun, gun violence is all because of culture war, NRA is a bunch of racists. The second professor is from the anthropology dept., now this guy I highly encourage everyone to listen to, I think is has the solution. The third guy is a professor of sociology dept., spends his time talking about how great Australla and their gun ban is. The forth professor is from the economics dept., she thinks gun owners should have to carry insurance based on type of gun. I look at these 3 anti gun professors and think different life experiences shape people differently. REALLY, you guys think that way, but your edumacated, REALLY!