Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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Although again, she's always denied using drugs.
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Think about Britain and the US.
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There are between 90 and 100 guns for every 100 people in the US.
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There are just 6.6 in England and Wales.
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In the US, there are nearly three murders with guns for every 100,000 people each year.
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That's 40 times more than in England and Wales.
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Ergo, fewer guns equal fewer incidents of gun crime, right?
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Well, maybe.
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But consider this stat from Professor Dan Polsby, Dean of the Law School at George Mason University in the USA, who wrote a famous article in the mid-90s called The False Promise of Gun Control.
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But Professor Polsby isn't foolish and realises that there's a lot more at play here.
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Of course, correlation, as we know, doesn't mean causation.
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But he thinks there may be some link between the two, and this is his reasoning.
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Well, this has some logic to it.
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When he first wrote his influential article back in the 1990s, there was little empirical evidence on the issue of gun control.
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That was until a man called John Lott came along.
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What he wanted to do was look at what happened before and after states introduced gun control laws.
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So he compiled crime data for all the counties in the United States between 1977 and 1992 and looked at the difference various gun control laws made.
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Right to carry laws are laws that allow citizens to buy and carry guns, specifically handguns.
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When this research came out, it had a profound effect on the gun control debate, and unsurprisingly, it was jumped upon by the gun lobby.
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Now, while the downturn in violent crime was significant, it was still quite small, between 6% to 8%.
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