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Obama’s Gun Play
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: January 21, 2011
President Obama is under renewed pressure from his base to demonstrate that he is, indeed, a principled man of unwavering conviction rather than a pliant political reed willingly bent and bowed by ever-shifting winds. More
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Date: 2011-01-23 09:11 pm (UTC)It's interesting that gun homicide rate seems to be largely independent of gun ownership levels. (Witness U.S. and Mexico have highest gun homicide rates but are on opposite ends w/regards to gun ownership.)
It would be much more interesting, however, if it included the total number of homicides per capita (all causes). Without that data it's not especially enlightening.
I suspect
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