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More Guns, Less Crime Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws

On its initial publication in 1998, this title drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. More than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws. Despite all the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever been able to refute the author's conclusion that more guns mean less crime. Relying on the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever conducted on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws, the book directly challenges common perceptions about the relationship of guns, crime, and violence. This third edition draws on an additional ten years of data, including analysis of the effects of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C. that brings it fully up to date and further bolsters its central contention.

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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."
  • "On its initial publication in 1998, this title drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. More than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws. Despite all the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever been able to refute the author's conclusion that more guns mean less crime. Relying on the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever conducted on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws, the book directly challenges common perceptions about the relationship of guns, crime, and violence. This third edition draws on an additional ten years of data, including analysis of the effects of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C. that brings it fully up to date and further bolsters its central contention."@en
  • "On its initial publication in 1998, John R. Lott's More Guns, Less Crime drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. More than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws: despite all the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever been able to refute Lott's simple, startling conclusion that more guns mean less crime. Relying on the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever conducted on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws, the book directly challenges common perceptions about the relationship of guns, crime, and violence. For t."@en
  • "Overview: On its initial publication in 1998, John R. Lott's More Guns, Less Crime drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. More than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws: despite all the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever been able to refute Lott's simple, startling conclusion that more guns mean less crime. Relying on the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever conducted on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws, the book directly challenges common perceptions about the relationship of guns, crime, and violence. For this third edition, Lott draws on an additional ten years of data-including provocative analysis of the effects of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C. that brings the book fully up to date and further bolsters its central contention."@en
  • "Examines data on gun ownership, gun laws, and crime, assessing the effectiveness of gun control and the relationship between concealed-handgun laws and crime rates, arguing that more guns means less crime in America."

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  • "More Guns, Less Crime Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws"@en
  • "More guns, less crime : understanding crime and gun-control laws"
  • "More guns, less crime : understanding crime and gun-control laws"@en
  • "More guns, less crime understanding crime and gun-control laws"@en
  • "More guns, less crime understanding crime and gun-control laws"
  • "Mais Armas, Menos Crimes? : entendendo o crime e as leis de controle de armas de fogo"@pt

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