Gun laws and gold medals

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🗓️ 27 July 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Last week's mass-shooting at a cinema in Colorado has - not suprisingly - intensified America's bitter and long-running argument with itself about gun control. The argument is political and highly partisan. But it is also practical: would tighter gun laws actually lead to fewer gun deaths? You might think it's obvious that they would. But it seems the evidence isn't quite that clear. Also: how have Olympians changed in the last century?

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to More or Less,
0:02.1	wrestling the Truth from Numbers Greco-Roman style.
0:11.1	Late to in the programme,
0:12.1	we'll be looking at the correlation between gun control laws
0:14.8	and gun crime and...
0:25.2	We'll be asking why the mothers of US presidents,
0:27.5	such as Rose Kennedy,
0:28.8	live longer than the mums of British Prime Ministers.
0:31.6	But first, as I speak,
0:33.6	the nation is preparing to watch the opening ceremony
0:36.4	of the 2012 Olympics.
0:38.1	If you listen to the repeat,
0:39.4	wasn't it great?
0:41.1	If it's the shambles, can we edit that without?
0:43.2	Yeah, okay, cool.
0:45.4	On More or Less, we've been limbering up for the Olympics too.
0:48.5	We've been wondering whether it's possible to level the playing field.
0:51.7	I don't mean the actual playing field,
0:53.5	which we hope are level already,
0:55.4	but the statistical playing field.
0:57.9	Charlotte McDonald, explain.
0:59.9	Well, this is the thought experiment we set ourselves.
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