I'm right about guns
Published: Mon, Apr. 24, 2006 12:00AM
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closeAn April 15 People's Forum letter attacking my research was filled with inaccurate claims. It said that my research showing that concealed carry gun laws lead to a drop in violent crime has been "entirely discredited" and "failed to stand up when examined by more objective researchers." In fact, a large number of refereed academic studies have confirmed my results, some finding drops in crime even larger than I did. For a list of papers see: http://johnrlott.tripod.com/postsbyday/RTCResearch.html.
As renowned criminologist James Q. Wilson pointed out in the National Academy report that the letter-writerreferenced, all the regressions estimated by the committee on murder rates showed that murder rates declined significantly after right-to-carry laws were adopted.
Interestingly, there are no refereed academic journal publications that claim that right-to-carry laws increase any type of violent crime rate.
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John Lott
Burke, Va.
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