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Neurosurgeon-turned-Presidential candidate Ben Carson has been under attack this week by our PC-enforcers in the media.

While I was fact checking today’s Mises Daily article, I checked some correlation coefficients of my own so I didn’t have to rely on Volokh’s numbers as my only source.

I approached the data a little differently than Volokh did and instead of using a subjective ranking by an organization like the Brady organization, I just looked at the rate of gun ownership in the state. After all, the argument is often that more guns and more gun owners leads to more violence.

Last April, Jill and I participated in an ASA Literary tour of the Southern States of the USA with twenty-four other Australians. The party was led by Susannah Fullerton who is famous for her work on Jane Austen.

[This review of Charles Murray’s new book “By the People” appears in the September-October 2015 issue of The Austrian.]

International trade grabbed headlines this week with Monday’s announcement that twelve governments have reached agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Mises Daily Friday 

Ryan McMaken writes:

With the latest school shooting, all humane people are expected to jump up and do something to stop the next shooting. The most popular response among media pundits and national policymakers right now is an expansion of the various prohibitions now in place against guns.

With the latest school shooting, all humane people are expected to jump up and do something to stop the next shooting. The most popular response among media pundits and national policymakers right now is an expansion of the various prohibitions now in place against guns.

For anyone familiar with the history of prohibitions on inanimate objects, however, these appeals to prohibition as a “common sense” solution are rather less convincing.