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Violent Days: Some Notes on Murder Rates and the 1897 Sears Catalogue

3/5/2019

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Guns.

You're either for 'em or against 'em.

But both sides on the gun control debate would probably agree that we are more civilized than our ancestors living a century or so ago. We are more peace-loving, more kind, more gentle than those ignorant, violent bumpkins. We are their moral superiors and much less apt to murder someone with a firearm.

Or are we?

​Please cut and past to see the piece below published on Intellectual Takeout this week.

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/what-old-sears-roebuck-catalogue-teaches-us-about-gun-control
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