The biggest difficulty, Wintemute continued, is that almost all of the associations between more laws and fewer deaths disappeared when the investigators took into account the prevalence of gun ownership in each state.
If keeping guns out of the hands of criminals were as easy as outlawing certain categories of guns or ammunition or more thorough background checks, then it seems that all of the existing gun laws would have been more effective at reducing gun violence and that cities with the strictest gun laws, like Washington DC and Chicago, would be among our safest.
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Later, came social reforms like making the divorce laws more equitable.
"It is my impression that this law is driven by the desire of some software publishers who want to protect their interests even more than the existing laws allow them to, " Braucher added.
It calls on the government to do more to make sure the labour laws are being respected, following previous similar warnings.
The SIVs are gone and more laws are being proposed that are moving toward cracking down on the secrecy that Cayman offers.
The explanation for the sudden spikes in the prices of many commodities in recent years lies in nothing more sinister than the laws of supply and demand.
The governor, meanwhile, says the new laws will simply make the state more attractive to business.
Consider this story from Sacramento about the fiscal havoc wreaked by people becoming more scrupulous about obeying the parking laws.
On the contrary, if people respond deterministically to their environment, all the more reason to pass laws and hold violators accountable.
If they had wanted, American prosecutors could have used the existing laws far more energetically to enforce justice when contractors have behaved badly.
Passed in January, the gun laws classify more semiautomatic rifles as so-called assault weapons, make it illegal to own ammunition magazines with more than seven rounds and require many gun owners to renew their licenses every five years, among other measures.
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The new laws classify more semiautomatic rifles as so-called assault weapons, requires many gun owners to renew their licenses every five years, increases the regularity of background checks and makes it illegal to own ammunition magazines with more than seven rounds.
Prosecutors who aren't thoroughly familiar with the laws can unwittingly violate one or more of those laws and provide cyberstalking suspects with grounds for a lawsuit alleging invasion of privacy.
But gun control advocates see evidence that, since the Connecticut shooting, many firearms owners are more open to stricter laws than the NRA contends.
The new guidelines also are more in line with laws in 43 states and the District of Columbia that require youth and high-school athletes to be removed from play and to return only after at least 24 hours and with the permission of a health-care professional.
Yet the more fundamental argument that armed drones somehow breach the laws of war does not, at present, stand up.
"If they want to see more production all the laws need to be changed, " said Fesharaki.
The real cure is not more laws and more fines but extensive deregulation and deep tax cutting.
The survey results come after ministers warned that the introduction of more relaxed licensing laws on Thursday is likely to lead to an increase in alcohol related arrests.
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We need better laws for the state prosecutors in this state so they have laws that match the federal laws, and we have more prosecutors who are empowered to actually bring the case.
Some states make you jump through more hoops than others, but overall the laws are getting tougher as child advocacy groups push for more industry oversight.
The Conference agreed that the present libel laws were not the main deterrent to having more investigative reporting which was described as important to ensure accountability of public officials.
This is interesting, as Fishman notes, because it suggests that the rush to offshore over the last decade may be more of a fad than the result of immutable laws of comparative advantage.
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"Our basic area of problem is the gray areas that where you apply the federal laws but the mindset of the people is still more akin to the tribal systems, " Pakistani Federal Law Minister Khalid Ranjha says.
In fact, Congress's priority in both cases has been to avoid making the politically tough decision of who should and who should not be protected by discrimination statutes, which explains both the loose wording of the original laws and the reluctance of Congress to intervene with more specific legislation later.
The more people get used to carrying guns as routine, the more they will react to gun-control laws as though someone were trying to steal their cell phones or their watches.
In 1990, only 13 countries had adopted national FOI laws, whereas there are currently more than 90 such laws adopted across the world.
The wheels of the laws grind slowly enough, but science proceeds even more hesitantly.
Until recently, the country adopted a more repressive approach to drug use, with laws that penalised the possession and consumption of drugs.
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