Pale Amitai
Posted By Russ Roberts On December 20, 2012 @ 11:12 pm In Crime | Comments Disabled
This short piece by Amitai Etzioni [1] captures the difference between economists and non-economists. He says that rather than wait for gun control laws, we should just ban them in our own homes and post signs outside announcing that our homes are gun-free thereby becoming “ambassadors for gun control.”
I am reminded of the Hillaire Belloc poem:
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight.
But Roaring Bill who killed him thought it right.
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