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Crime/Economics/Eighth Amendment

Imposing fines based on income

Posted on July 16, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve seen this idea crop up every now and again. And a lot of people are wanting this because 1. it sticks it to the rich and 2. it’s from Europe, s...

Crime/Politics

On Jeffrey Epstein

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ll say this up front: I don’t believe Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. When Epstein’s death was announced, a lot of people presumed he had been...

Crime/Second Amendment

Gun control States are robbery-friendly States

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In continuing the analysis of gun control laws and violent crime, let’s turn our attention to robbery rates. Source for the robbery rates comes from the F...

Crime/Second Amendment

Analysis of gun laws and violent crime

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve done previous analyses on the Brady scoring for various gun laws and how they relate to suicide rates in various States. To briefly recap previous ar...

Crime/Second Amendment

Demographics of gun violence

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

These numbers come from the CDC WISQARS Fatal Injury Report and Nonfatal Injury Report, cross-referenced with the FBI Uniform Crime Report. All data is for cale...

Crime/Firearms and Ammunition/Second Amendment

Breeding fear

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Firearms are both exciting and terrifying. Depending on the person, they’ll either command respect and awe for the marvels of engineering they are, or the...

Crime/Feminism/Second Amendment

Teaching men to not rape

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

This is a response I gave on Facebook to someone who said Can’t we teach men not to rape at the same time as teaching women how to defend themselves? Oh w...

Crime/Second Amendment

Misleading gun statistic

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve seen one particular statement replayed several times over, and it’s rather misleading in its representation: gun deaths have been cut in half o...

Crime/Firearms and Ammunition

Reply to Lonnie and Sandy Phillips regarding your lawsuit against Lucky Gunner

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Mr and Mrs Philips, In your op-ed posted to Huffington Post, you make quite a few troubling statements: We brought our lawsuit because we thought it was outrage...

Concealed carry/Crime/Due process/Feminism/Second Amendment

Talking about rape

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 3 Comments

Let’s talk about rape. Rape is forced sexual performance or sexual performance that occurs while the person — the victim — has been coerced, i...

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