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"The crucial variable is not the presence of firearms... [View all]
...but the degree to which young people are successfully socialized into non-criminal, responsible behavior patterns."
What a shocking assertion! 
http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_03_3_filley.pdf
Forbidden Fruit
When Prohibition Increases the Harm It Is Supposed to Reduce
My thesis is that because reducing only the harmful types or aspects of certain behaviors is difficult, governments often resort to prohibiting all types or aspects of the behavior, both the harmful and the benign. Such flat prohibition often leads to an increase, rather than a decrease, of the harmful behavior.
When Prohibition Increases the Harm It Is Supposed to Reduce
My thesis is that because reducing only the harmful types or aspects of certain behaviors is difficult, governments often resort to prohibiting all types or aspects of the behavior, both the harmful and the benign. Such flat prohibition often leads to an increase, rather than a decrease, of the harmful behavior.
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