Thursday, September 07, 2006

An Inconvenient Truth

Pennsylvania has more guns & more carry licensees per capita than any other state. Yet – if Philadelphia is subtracted from the equation— our state’s homicide rate is as low as Western Europe’s and our violent crime rate is lower than England’s.
--Preston K. Covey, Ph.D., presented to: The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Urban Violence, August 10, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA

[Via Dan Gifford, via Don B. Kates, Jr.]
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3 comments:

  1. AlanDP9/07/2006 12:50 PM

    Is there a link to the full text?

    The links to your references only look like p.r. pages about them. Or did I miss something.

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  2. David Codrea9/07/2006 1:40 PM

    AlanDP: It's not yet on the Internet.

    I contacted Dr.Covey and he has graciously given me permission to post it in its entirety, which I will do tomorrow.

    It is really good stuff and something we don't see too much of--an academic speaking plainly to legislators about why they're wrong when they propose gun control.

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  3. Anonymous9/07/2006 7:34 PM

    our violent crime rate is lower than England’s.

    Uh, since when is being "lower than England's crime rate" anything to brag about?

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