Kieran Healy

Bang

In his continuing coverage of l’affaire Lott, Mark Kleiman asks:

if the Ayres and Donohue statistical results showing a mild “more guns, more crime” effect were correct, what mechanism might account for that effect?

That would be the trigger mechanism.

+:)

Bang on target.

It’s hilarious when a person who’s not a right-winger, and not a fool, wonders why.

I dunno, could be ‘more crime = more guns’…

Bulls-eye!

Wow, Dipnut really skewers you on this one. I agree with him, and maybe if you tried studying history instead of sociology, you would too.