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On Jeffrey Epstein, again

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Oh where to start… First, did Epstein commit suicide? Yes. As I mentioned a few months ago talking about Virginia Giuffre, I still whole-heartedly believe...

Crime

On Virginia Giuffre

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

And here’s that tweet with its date: December 10, 2019. So about a month and a half after Epstein’s suicide. (And yes, I still firmly believe Epstei...

Crime

Only slash 3 tires?

Posted on July 25, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m sure we’ve all heard this misconception: that if you’re going to slash someone’s tires, slash only three so insurance won’t pa...

Crime

Motivations

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Given the details that have come out about the shooter that attempted to take out Trump, or rather… the surprising LACK of information on him, there’...

Crime

Tell me you want a copycat…

Posted on July 14, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

…without telling me you want a copycat… It’s been noted time and again that giving notoriety to the perpetrators of mass homicide events and a...

Crime/Free speech and press/Health/Health care/Law Enforcement/Police/Second Amendment/Vaccines

Risk perception, or why women are choosing bears

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Now that the party has somewhat died down around the recent social media phenomenon of women saying they’d rather run into a bear in the wild than a rando...

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...

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