NYT: commendably truthful regarding gun issues for a change.

[lomalinda]

"In Saint Louis, a 1990s-era gun buyback program begun each fall was thought by some to be behind a drop in violence. But as Richard Rosenfeld, a professor of criminology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, studied the program’s impact, he found that the annual crime reductions were more attributable to the normal seasonal ebbing in homicide and assaults."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/nyregion/19murder.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

This admission, coupled with the scathing report on Obama's ability to deliver on his campaign promises (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/us/politics/18poll.html?hpw) , is interesting indeed. I won't be paying for their product, but I do commend the authors (and the editors who allowed the stuff to be published) for their willingess to go against the grain.

[HondaMasterTech]

More guns does equal less crime. It's not speculation it's a proven fact. I wish we lived in a world that was void of violence and the need for guns, but we dont and probably never will.

[DDT]

More guns does equal less crime. It's not speculation it's a proven fact. I wish we lived in a world that was void of violence and the need for guns, but we dont and probably never will.

you can safely remove probably unless you are counting on some new form of weapon that obsoletes guns.

[RRangel]

It's not so commendable when the New York Times should be truthful to begin with.