Do you trust the crowd or only the anointed experts? Conventional wisdom says that only credentialed experts are to be trusted. But what turns out to be true over and over is that the crowd is wise and can be trusted in spite of conventional teaching.
Wikipedia was dismissed as ludicrous — allowing anyone to author a reference document. Today we know that conventional wisdom was completely wrong. The crowd trounced the experts in every regard. Two thirds of fire departments in the US are crowd sourced — volunteers — with no less effectiveness than paid counterparts.
All the data indicates people are responsible with potentially harmful items. 253 journals, 99 books, 43 government publications have examined gun control laws worldwide and failed to identify any gun control that reduces violent crime. Trust the crowd — it works.
--MR
