Again, it’s worth pointing out that while there is always value in identifying speculation as such, this particular issue now has a year’s worth of actual, non-speculative data to back it up. We don’t need to merely guess that gun crime in bars will not rise… We know it hasn’t.
It would be nice for one person to say that they were wrong. It wouldn’t have to be a complete capitulation: “I still say in thE long run that crime will rise, but I admit that I was wrong about what would happen this past year.”
As opposed to the reflexive claim that the police and the newspaper reporters and editors conspired to hide the truth, such an admission would be welcome.
And honest.