There is a web site where the owner works very hard on statistics relating to gun-control and crime worldwide as well as US and local. Like the Watts Up With That site does with the global warming/climate change statistics. His posts are full of numbers, graphs, and links to sources for the numbers. In one off main topic post there was this line: It might also help the general understanding

Dale Franks breaks down the numbers: One might […] remark that rising mortgage rates may signal the inevitability of rising interest rates for Treasury bonds. Or, perhaps, vice versa. Whatever. Either way, you should keep in mind that a rise of 1% in Treasury yields works out to an additional $160 billion or so in debt service payments per year. Right now we’re paying about $350 billion a year on

What is particularly interesting to me about the interview is that is shows clearly something I long ago surmised — and subsequently posited while discussing the nascent outlaw! movement (an idea that led to my ouster from polite online “conservative” company, but that now, 4-years later, seems more prescient than “unhelpful” or “fundamentally unserious“) — namely, that the ideas behind Levin’s prescriptions, when divorced from the identity or political label