David Hemenway Quotes

• Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with a gun, the mark of a real man is that you would never do anything like that. . . . The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I'd like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren't anybody to be looked up to. They're somebody to look down at because they couldn't defend themselves or couldn't protect others without using a gun.

  David Hemenway

  Real, Men, Gun

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• There is no evidence that having more guns reduces crime. None at All.

  David Hemenway

  Gun, Crime, Evidence

  "More Guns = More Killing". www.nytimes.com. January 5, 2013.

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• Where there are more guns, there are more gun problems, it 's particularly dangerous to have a gun around when people do things spontaneously. In college, from a public health standpoint, brains are n't fully developed.

  David Hemenway

  Health, Gun, College

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• Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

  David Hemenway

  Thinking, Want, Psychologist

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