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Python 2.1 release candidate, ESR and guns
Tim Churchestchur at optushome.com.au
Sat Apr 14 19:51:22 EDT 2001
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:> > - Eric Raymond extended the pstats module with a simple interactive> > statistics browser, invoked when the module is run as a script.For which we owe Eric S. Raymond, and all the other contributors toPython 2.1,many thanks.However, Eric's posting come with the following .sig postscript:> According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of> the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that> only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured,> as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These> percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively> comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if> they used other means of resistance.> -- G. Kleck, "Policy Lessons from Recent Gun Control Research,"Now, I think that the juxtaposition of Eric's open source advocacy, andmore recently, Python advocacy, with his pro-gun and anti-gun controlsocial (and possibly political) activism is very unfortunate. However,it is not appropriate to argue this point in this forum. But I do feelobliged to point out that Eric is being a bit disingenuous by not givingthe full reference for his quote from Gary Kleck's paper. This isparticularly so given the use of the word "recent" in the title of thepaper which Eric quotes. In fact, the full reference is:Kleck, Gary. "Policy Lessons from Recent Gun Control Research. (GunControl Symposium)."Law and Contemporary Problems 49, no. 1. (Winter 1986.): 35-62.Clearly the use of the adjective "recent" in the title of the paper issomewhat relative. Given the publication date of 1986, and consideringpublication delays, it is reasonable to assume that the statistics whichGary Kleck quotes date from a survey performed in the early 1980s.Perhaps Eric, who no doubt has access to the full text of this articlesince he is quoting from it, could enlighten us on this point? In anycase, data which is recent in the more usual sense of the word doesappears to be available - for example seehttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cv99.htm Tim ChurchesSydney, Australia
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