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Michael Shermer on Thomas Sowell

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Negative Effects of Gun Violence

I think he approached it from a very empirical point of view where he looked at the difference between violence in England versus violence in America. He came to the conclusion that the idea that guns cause violence doesn't hold up under scrutiny. And that thinking that if you get rid of guns, you're going to get rid of violence is gullible. It's harder to kill somebody without a deadly weapon. It's really hard to kill people. A lot of the capital punishment is it's practiced in a hundred together tribes as they have all the guys in the group decide, all right, we're going to take this guy out. That kind of thing. So I do think, yeah, I

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