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<p>WASHINGTON -- They worked for hours, calculating and figuring. And after weeks, they had a number: $400 million.</p> <p>That was how much Detroit officials determined gun violence had cost the city over 10 years to send out the police, treat the uninsured, bury the dead and clean the blood from the streets.</p>

Breaking Taboos:Not Your Ordinary Gun Book[From the Seven Myths Home Page] Did you know that your "smart gun" can serve as a homing beacon to track your movements from afar? That an assailant can disable your smart gun with an electromagnetic pulse generator? You would have known, had you read The Seven Myths of Gun Control by Richard Poe. Seven Myths is no ordinary gun book. "[It] was delivered to me at a time when I had a number of projects on tap and was in no mood to dig into another book on gun rights," recalls reviewer Mike...