Reply #289: An emergency room physician is as trustworthy to evaluate the

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relative merits of gun use for and against crime as a homicide detective is to evaluate the relative merits and costs of freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Their biases are strong, well entrenched and honest. I don't begrudge them their biases, I begrudge them trying to bring them to bear to limit the freedom of innocent people.

I wouldn't trust MYSELF to analytically and accurately evaluate the relative merits and costs to the Southern economy of slavery. As a black man (and a decent human being) I would have a hard time seeing the positives--though I am intellectually sure that there must have been some from a strictly financial perspective. You would have to disguise the data to get a decent analysis. Ditto for the merits of genocide to X, regardless of what X is.

Some doctors see guns similarly to the way I see slavery or genocide. As I said, I don't begrudge them their bias, just what they attempt to do with it.