New Zealand confiscates arms, experiences the usual
From Radio New Zealand: "Rates of gun crimes and killings using guns at highest levels in a decade."
Of course, that just means they should want more.
Ten year old arrested & booked....
For pointing a Nerf gun. It wasn't even loaded.
Race and "no duty to retreat" laws
A dissenting statement by Commissioner Gail Herriot, of the Commission on Civil Rights.
"This report should not have been published in this form. When the results of an empirical study don't come out the way Commission members hoped and expected that they would, the right thing to do is usually to publish those results anyway. Why hide useful information?
Instead, the Commission sat on the report for years. Then it decided to discard the draft written by our staff and publish instead a transcript of the witness testimony received at our briefing that took place on October 17, 2014 in Orlando, Florida (along with Commissioner Statements like this one). In that way, the staff's empirical findings could be buried forever."
Study of longbow fatalities
Right here. I have a paper submitted to a medical journal which begins something like, "I have chosen to write upon a topic on which very little has been written recently. In fact, very little has been written at all. Arrow wounds."
UPDATE: yep, those longbows had a fearsome pull. They've analyzed the wood of those recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose, and estimate the pull at upwards of a hundred pounds. Thus the laws requiring constant practice, and outlawing all games except archery. They had to keep those biceps strong, for military preparedness!
I recall reading one late Tudor period debate between an advocate of the musket (not so called then) and the bow. The musket advocated pointed out that on campaign troops were ill-fed and often sick, and thus were often too weak to pull the bow, whereas it didn't take much strength to load and fire a firearm.