More guns, less crime
understanding crime and gun-control laws
3rd ed.
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Author
Publication
2010 - The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
56,250 words, Guess
Page Count
225 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemoregunslesscrim00jrjo
- ISBN-100226493660
- ISBN-139780226493664
- Goodreads6974088
- Library of Congress Control Number2009036622
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number435918283
- Open LibraryOL23697781M
Classifications
- DDC344.7305/33
- LCCKF3941 .L68 2010
Description
Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it cause more citizens to harm each other? Wherever people happen to fall along the ideological spectrum, their answers are all too often founded upon mere impressionistic and anecdotal evidence. In this direct challenge to conventional wisdom, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime. In this provocative work he comes to a startling conclusion more guns mean less crime. In what may be his most controversial conclusion, Lott finds that mass public shootings, such as the infamous examples of the Long Island Railroad by Colin Ferguson or the 1996 Empire State Building shooting, are dramatically reduced once law-abiding citizens in a state are allowed to carry concealed handguns.
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