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To: RMF who wrote (892014)	10/7/2015 2:30:36 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1572719

Price elasticity for cigarettes has been estimated at around a 5% reduction in consumption for a 10% price increase, which is about half that for some other non essentials. While price increases undoubtedly contribute I do believe researchers have established that education programs have been significantly effective. If you increased prices it would probably help but with 300 million guns in the country the reality is there is no way of doing that. You just can't reduce that supply enough to make any difference. The problem is that the value of human lives has steadily declined, and people will murder others for a crack rock or bag of weed. It is absurd. I am a chronic viewer of The First 48, and those detectives are often disbelieving that lives are taken for such rinky dink reasons. The guns aren't the problem when the jerks will kill someone over 20 bucks.