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understanding crime and gun-control laws

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An edition of More guns, less crime (1998)

More guns, less crime

understanding crime and gun-control laws

3rd ed.

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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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The University of Chicago Press
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English

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Law and legislation, Firearms, Firearms and crime, Firearms, law and legislation

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More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
2013, University of Chicago Press
in English
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More guns, less crime: understanding crime and gun-control laws
2010, The University of Chicago Press
in English - 3rd ed.
Cover of: More guns, less crime
More guns, less crime: understanding crime and gun-control laws
2000, University of Chicago Press
in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: More guns, less crime
More guns, less crime: understanding crime and gun-control laws
1998, University of Chicago Press
in English

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Table of Contents

Preface to the third edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Introduction
How to test the effects of gun control
Gun ownership, gun laws, and the data on crime
Concealed-handgun laws and crime rates: the empirical evidence
The victims and the benefits from protection
What determines arrest rates and the passage of concealed-handgun laws?
The political and academic debate
Some final thoughts
1996 update
A decade later: thirty years of data and nine more states
Appendixes.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chicago, London

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Dewey Decimal Class
344.7305/33
Library of Congress
KF3941 .L68 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL23697781M
Internet Archive
moregunslesscrim00jrjo
ISBN 10
0226493660
ISBN 13
9780226493664
LCCN
2009036622
OCLC/WorldCat
435918283
Goodreads
6974088

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OL1934698W

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