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 | | Most guns used in criminal acts originate as legal purchases by legal owners. | | | This argument presumes that law abiding citizens and criminals obtain their guns from one or more sources independent of both, and that restrictions on the general flow of firearms to legal purchases will have little or no impact on criminal access. | | | These weapons were then stolen, sold under the table privately or in gun shows in the many states where such transactions are still legal, lost or given away thoughtlessly - all acts which amount to a failure to secure the weapon from unauthorized use. |
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| | Concealed Guns Reduce Crime, if . . . |
| | A range of different gun laws as well as other methods of deterrence, such as the death penalty, were examined. | | | Indeed, much of the impetus for concealed-handgun laws in the United States during the 1980s arose from the belief that these laws would prevent such attacks. | | | Although the vast majority of researchers concur that concealed-handgun laws significantly deter crime, not even these three critics have argued that allowing concealed-handgun laws increases crime. |
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| | GUNS IN AMERICA: Part 2 of 4 |
| | ATF records show that most of the recovered guns that have obliterated serial numbers and that were used in crimes originated from an illegal sale by a licensed dealer. | | | While the guns traced by the ATF may be used for villainous deeds by minors or others ineligible to buy them, the weapons are mostly legal. | | | Sources fall into three categories: stolen guns; guns provided by "straw" purchasers (a legally qualified buyer who purchases for another person, or a person who falsifies identification to purchase a gun from a dealer); and dealers who knowingly sell guns illegally. |
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| | Reason magazine -- August/September 1998 |
| | Their electrifying conclusion was that liberalizing concealed-carry laws drives down rates of confrontational crime, with the effect most pronounced in the counties where the problem of criminal violence is worst. | | | Most states that have relaxed their concealed-carry laws have done so in the last 12 years, a period when violent crime was decreasing generally, though it may have been rising locally. | | | That sort of thing, always rare, is essentially absent from crime statistics, no matter what a state's rules concerning who may carry a gun in public. |
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| | WorldNetDaily: 'More Guns, Less Crime' |
| | In the second edition of the book, I am examining crime rates as well as actual gun deaths and suicides for all the counties in the United States from 1977, when the data was released, to the end of 1996. | | | You have to be a certain age; you have to pay a fee; half the states require some type of training; and there are criminal background checks. | | | I've worked in the federal government dealing with crime and law enforcement type issues. |
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17600
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| | Do Guns Cause Crime? |
| | As a civil liberties lawyer he has represented gun owners attacking the constitutionality of certain firearms laws. | | | The best currently available evidence, imperfect though it is (and must always be), indicates that general gun availability has no measurable net positive effect on [crime] rates.... | | | These comparisons imply that the decisive factors in national homicide rates are socio-economic and cultural, not availability of some particular form of weaponry. |
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| | On Guns and Crime |
| | The way to deal with gun crimes is strict enforcement of the existing laws. | | | Gun control advocates would ask for more laws and limits on purchasing guns as well. | | | The Philadelphia Police say that they issued 70 search warrants, arrested 123 suspects and scooped up drugs, cash and 28 guns. |
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| | Guns and Crime Essays and Articles at eNotes |
| | Pro- and antigun groups are also finding some room for compromise in measures that aim to reduce gun violence—for example, mandatory gun safety training for firsttime gun buyers and laws that punish parents who keep a gun in the home and fail to keep it securely out of their children’s reach. | | | Further confounding the issue is the fact that violent crimes are better documented—and therefore may be perceived as more widespread—than nonviolent crimes. | | | Unlike the United States, most western European countries and other economically developed nations have strict national gun laws. |
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http://www.enotes.com/guns-crime-article
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| | Reason magazine -- January 2000, Cold Comfort: An Interview with John R. Lott |
| | When you tell them that in 1996 there were 17 gun deaths for children under age 5 in the United States and 44 for children under age 10, they're just astounded. | | | I spend lots of time in the book talking about why you don't expect the drop in crime to be the same in all places....In more urban areas [of states with discretionary permit laws], public officials were especially reluctant to issue permits. | | | If I look at neighboring counties on either side of a state border, when one state passes its right-to-carry law, I see a drop in violent crime in that county, but the other county, right across the state border, in a state without a right-to-carry law, sees an increase in its violent crime rate. |
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| | Rod D. Martin: Fewer Guns = More Crime |
| | Post-confiscation, quite the opposite proves true: the crime rate in England and Wales is now 60 percent higher than in the United States. | | | The U.S. crime rate has fallen precipitously throughout the 1990s, largely driven downward by those states which have enacted concealed-carry laws. | | | The promise: a dramatic reduction in crime, in exchange for the right of common citizens to defend themselves. |
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http://www.thevanguard.org/thevanguard/columns/000711.shtml
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| | Guns and crime - definition of Guns and crime in Encyclopedia |
| | A European example would be to compare the violent crime levels between the United Kingdom which has very strict rules against gun ownership and self-defense and Switzerland which has widespread private gun ownership and which maintains the right to self-defense. | | | In some countries such as the United States, the amount of regulation that governments should impose on firearms is controversial. | | | Because the Brady Bill was a national law, the measurement of its results must be treated as a single sample. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Guns_and_crime
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| | Transcript: More Guns, Less Crime? 7/01/98 |
| | Those states that issue the most permits have had the largest drops in violent crime, and over time as more permits are issued there is a continued drop in violent crime. | | | And we can reduce the supply of guns available to criminals with background checks, waiting periods, one gun a month laws, and by requiring that guns be stored in a locked box. | | | John Lott: First, there is a very close relationship between the number of permits issued in a state and the decline in violent crime rates. |
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http://www.time.com/time/community/transcripts/chattr070198.html
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| | Deltoid » More guns Less crime |
| | There may be a very small number of crimes committed by permit holders, and a very small number of criminals might take up gun carrying after encountering a permit holder, but the crime increases this would cause would be smaller than those observed by Ayres and Donohue. | | | It is perfectly obvious if you look at any of their tables that they considered each of the UCR crime categories separately, as well as the aggregate categories of violent crime and property crime. | | | These wild swings are caused not by any true impact of shall-issue laws but by the selective dropping out from the individual year estimates of states that adopted the law more recently, leaving only the shrinking number of earliest adopters to identify the particular annual impact. |
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http://timlambert.org/category/more_guns_less_crime
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| | Interview, Lott, More Guns, Less Crime |
| | Despite millions of people licensed to carry concealed handguns and many states having these laws for decades, there has only been one case where a person with a permit used a gun after a traffic accident and even in that one case it was in self-defense. | | | Concealed handgun laws reduce violent crime for two reasons. | | | Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of both the author and the University of Chicago Press. |
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| | ca crime guns |
| | While 9mm handguns are the most common type identified in the California Department of Justice "crime gun" data, they are also the handgun most commonly sold in California. | | | in a crime at the time of their confiscation, the criminal context in which they are acquired makes it reasonable to infer that these guns are particularly | | | CDOJ also maintains accurate data on the number of handguns sold by licensed dealers each year in the state. |
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| | John Derbyshire on guns and conservatives on National review Online |
| | Once in a while a criminal will steal a gun from a law-abiding person, until eventually there is a good supply floating around in the criminal world. | | | You can attain option (3) by passing laws against gun ownership. | | | The United States, via the Second Amendment, has wisely chosen option (1). |
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| | Guns Used In Crime |
| | The report covers how often guns are used in crime, what categories of firearms are most often used, and what type of guns is preferred by criminals. | | | Guns Used In Crime: Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice | | | This is the first of a series of reports on firearms and crime that will be part of a comprehensive report entitled Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice. |
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| | More Guns = Less Crime |
| | The longer a concealed-carry law is in place in a state, the more effective it is. Between '77 and '94, for each year a concealed-carry law was in place, murder rates dropped 3% on average, robberies more than 2% and rapes 2%. | | | Neither federal nor state waiting periods to buy guns have any association with reduced crime. | | | In 10 states that passed concealed-carry laws between '77 and '92, the death rate from public, multiple shootings - such as the '93 Long Island train incident - fell by 69%. |
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| | Discriminations: Guns And Crime Archives |
| | Additionally, in most jurisdictions commiting a robbery (or rape or assault) with a weapon results in an increase of the severity of the punishment for a crime. | | | Then again, if you actually waste the perp with a round or two, you're very likely preventing some future crimes, an act which will have its own positive impact on the crime rate. | | | The irony of all of this is the most restrictive gun laws are usually in the areas with the highest crime rates--inner city areas. |
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| | Single copies of the publication "Guns Used In Crime" (NCJ-148201), written by BJS statistician Marianne W. Zawitz, may be obtained from the BJS Clearinghouse, Box 179, Annapolis Junction, Maryland 20701-0179. | | | More than three-quarters of the 83,000 guns used in crime that ATF traced for law enforcement agencies in 1994 were handguns. | | | The information is included in a report by the Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on guns used in crime that summarizes information from a number of different sources, such as BJS's National Crime Victimization Survey, the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) files. |
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| | SSRN-More Guns, More Crime by Mark Duggan |
| | The effect of gun ownership on all other crime categories is much less marked. | | | I also use this data to examine the impact of Carrying Concealed Weapons legislation on crime, and reject the hypothesis that these laws led to increases in gun ownership or reductions in criminal activity. | | | This paper examines the relationship between gun ownership and crime. |
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| | More Guns Less Crime |
| | Journal of Legal Studies stating "more guns, less crime". | | | Missouri residents will be interested in the author’s attempts to correct misrepresentations of crime data published during the Proposition B debate on a concealed handgun law. | | | In 1996 Professor Lott delivered at paper at the Cato Institute stating "more guns, less crime. |
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| | Guns and Such |
| | Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice (DoJ - rel Nov '95) | | | Guns used in Crime (Marianne Zawitz) (BJS, July, '95) | | | Last Update - 24 November, 1995 - 18:10 |
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| | TRUTH ABOUT GUNS AND THEIR IMPACT ON U.S. SOCIETY |
| | HIGHLIGHTS OF US DoJ STUDY ON CRIME IN THE US and IN ENGLAND and WALES (5/12/99) | | | As with other matters, the only way to clarify in the midst of a lot of confusing facts is to put in some effort to analyse the facts, and correlate them, and understand them. When one understands, it all becomes clear again. | | | YR 2004 CALIF BILLS RELATED TO GUNS (STATUS and READABLE, ANNOTATED COPIES, plus some analyses of them) |
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| | MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME |
| | He makes a compelling argument that other factors, such as the breakdown of traditional family and social structures, are far more significant in determining the rate of violent crime. | | | It's axiomatic among gun control enthusiasts that restricting the availability and number of firearms in the hands of the public will reduce crime. | | | This is a powerful, logically argued, and thoroughly documented rebuttal to the emotionally overwrought arguments of many gun control advocates. |
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| | SUTER "GUNS: Facts & Fallacies |
| | the apparent homicide drop began during 1974, 2 years BEFORE the gun law -- so how could the law be responsible for the temporary drop? | | | if the gun freeze were responsible for the homicide drop, we would expect the drop to continue -- the law hasn't changed, but the overall Washington, DC homicide rate has skyrocketed to 8 TIMES THE NATIONAL AVERAGE since 1988. | | | DONATE to our group and others that support your rights to protect yourself from criminals, crazies, and tyrants. |
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| | NONFICTION ABOUT OUTLAWS |
| | Pirates, Bandits, and Brotherhoods: A Study of Crime and Law in Kwangtung Province, 1796-1839. | | | Gold Camp Desperadoes: A Study of Violence, Crime, and Punishment on the Mining Frontier. | | | White, George M. From Boniface to Bank Burglar, or, the Price of Persecution: How a Successful Business Man, through the Miscarriage of justice, Became a Notorious Bank Looter. |
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| | Guns and Crime |
| | This report provides new estimates of the extent of handgun crime in the United States, as well as the first estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey of thefts of firearms and the extent of firearm use for self-defense. | | | The report also discusses the consequences and outcomes of crimes in which victims used firearms for self-defense. | | | Using data from 1987 through 1992, the report compares the handgun victimization experience of the various age, race, and sex subgroups of the Nation's population and examines the consequences of such victimization. |
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