Recently came across John Lott's site. A lot of good hard data here:
https://crimeresearch.org
Crime Prevention Research Center
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Re: Crime Prevention Research Center
Reading John Lott's books and articles has been a tremendous help in my learning journey. Highly respected and highly recommend.
.. tyrants accomplish their purposes ...by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms. - Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840
Re: Crime Prevention Research Center
John Lott responds in Scientific American:
"Melinda Wenner Moyer’s article “Journey to Gunland” (October 2017) is very biased and ignores virtually all of the literature on right-to-carry laws and gun ownership since 1998. About two thirds of the peer-reviewed, published literature shows concealed carry laws help reduce crime. I even provided Moyer with those published papers, but she doesn’t provide a single reference to or quote from them. Moyer appears completely unaware any of my research after 1998, making no mention of the 2nd and 3rd editions of More Guns, Less Crime (University of Chicago Press, 2000, 2010)."
Point-by-point takedown:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... american1/
"Melinda Wenner Moyer’s article “Journey to Gunland” (October 2017) is very biased and ignores virtually all of the literature on right-to-carry laws and gun ownership since 1998. About two thirds of the peer-reviewed, published literature shows concealed carry laws help reduce crime. I even provided Moyer with those published papers, but she doesn’t provide a single reference to or quote from them. Moyer appears completely unaware any of my research after 1998, making no mention of the 2nd and 3rd editions of More Guns, Less Crime (University of Chicago Press, 2000, 2010)."
Point-by-point takedown:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... american1/
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