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OSD 396: Non-guns are becoming pretty gun-like (opens the original)
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When a journalist is looking to get a rise out of their audience, there’s a go-to article template that looks like this: “ introduces bill to ”. Legislators introduce all kinds of bills all the time. So there’s a ready supply of articles to be written about them. The fact that almost all such bills get scrapped before even coming to a vote is irrelevant.A few days ago, US Representative Kevin Mullin from California introdu
OSD 395: Guns suck, Jake Paul edition (opens the original)
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posted an interview with Jake Paul, who apparently has been reading OSD:Jake: The 2nd Amendment was made so that if the government was doing ridiculous things to us and controlling us in harmful ways, that the citizens could upthrow them, which is obviously what happened and why people came to the United States initially. They revolted and fought back and became independent. So I think as weapons systems get more advanced, a pistol or a shotgun is not going to be able to upthrow the government i
OSD 394: Surveillance and gun ownership are getting waymo complicated (opens the original)
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You can’t even wave your AR-15 around in a taxi anymore.From SFGATE:Two young people were arrested last week in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood after allegedly being caught in a Waymo with a loaded assault rifle, authorities said.Waymo employees became aware of a firearm in one of the company’s driverless cars on Sept. 3 and pulled the car over, a Waymo spokesperson told SFGATE. The company alerted emergency services and cooperated with the San Francisco Police Department.Police wer
OSD 393: Where is my flying gun? (opens the original)
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Alex Tabarrok put an updated spin on Frédéric Bastiat’s classic essay “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen”:regulation that raises gasoline prices makes people angry but when regulation prevents an industry from ever existing, most people never learn what they lost.Consider nuclear power. Overnight construction costs for early U.S. demonstration reactors fell 81 percent between 1954 and 1968. For reactors begun between 1967 and 1972, costs rose 187 percent. The 1971 Calvert C
OSD 392: Guns and murder are surprisingly uncorrelated (opens the original)
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Jeff Asher’s murder rate analyses continue over at his Substack:<span class="embedded-post-publicatio
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