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Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other? Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. This timely and provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. In this paperback edition, Lott has expanded the research through 1996, incorporating new data available from states that passed right-to-carry and other gun laws since the book's publication as well as new city-level statistics.

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Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other? Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. This timely and provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. In this paperback edition, Lott has expanded the research through 1996, incorporating new data available from states that passed right-to-carry and other gun laws since the book's publication as well as new city-level statistics.

"Lott's pro-gun argument has to be examined on the merits, and its chief merit is lots of data. . . . If you still disagree with Lott, at least you will know what will be required to rebut a case that looks pretty near bulletproof."—Peter Coy, Business Week

"By providing strong empirical evidence that yet another liberal policy is a cause of the very evil it purports to cure, he has permanently changed the terms of debate on gun control. . . . Lott's book could hardly be more timely. . . . A model of the meticulous application of economics and statistics to law and policy."—John O. McGinnis, National Review

"His empirical analysis sets a standard that will be difficult to match. . . . This has got to be the most extensive empirical study of crime deterrence that has been done to date."—Public Choice

"For anyone with an open mind on either side of this subject this book will provide a thorough grounding. It is also likely to be the standard reference on the subject for years to come."—Stan Liebowitz, Dallas Morning News

"A compelling book with enough hard evidence that even politicians may have to stop and pay attention. More Guns, Less Crime is an exhaustive analysis of the effect of gun possession on crime rates."—James Bovard, Wall Street Journal

"John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful, scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue."—Milton Friedman

Editorial Reviews

Daniel D. Polsby
An important new book by one of America's most resourceful and fearless econometricians. -- Reason
From The Critics
A compelling book with enough hard evidence that even politicians may have to stop and pay attention. More Guns, Less Crime is an exhaustive analysis of the effect of gun possession on crime rates. -- The Wall Street Journal

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780226493640
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date: 6/28/2000
  • Edition description: 1
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 332
  • Series: Studies in Law and Economics Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 9.02 (h) x 0.97 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Introduction 1
2 How to Test the Effects of Gun Control 21
3 Gun Ownership, Gun Laws, and the Data on Crime 36
4 Concealed-Handgun Laws and Crime Rates: The Empirical Evidence 50
5 The Victims and the Benefits from Protection 97
6 What Determines Arrest Rates and the Passage of Concealed-Handgun Laws? 117
7 The Political and Academic Debate 122
8 Some Final Thoughts 158
Appendixes 167
Notes 185
Bibliography 217
Index 221
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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 24, 2003

    Get Past The Numbers

    Get past the numbers, get past the dry stats and look to the message. If you own a gun, predators will not want to target you, plain and simple. John Lott does a stellar job proving that with cold hard facts.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 21, 2001

    Makes you stop and think

    This book is well written and researched. It is a real eye-opener. For many years, I was on the proverbial fence about guns, leaning more to the gun-control side, especially after Columbine. I bought and read this book only because one of my pro-gun relatives challenged me to. I expected to find arguments that were emotionally stirring but baseless. Instead, I found logic, real data, sources, facts and figures; John Lott doesn't try to sway the reader through symbolism and emotion, but with facts. It was a bit frightening for me because I found myself agreeing with what was written! While I'm not ready to go out and buy a gun myself, it's made me see how important guns are to individual liberty and freedom. I don't just rubber-stamp everything that the gun control lobby says anymore. For years we've been told that 'shall-issue' concealed-carry states would turn into bloodbaths of violence and road-rage shootings, and I believed it. But so far, it hasn't happened. I would highly reccommend this book to anyone, especially those who lean towards gun control. It's a fair, balanced, and factual work.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 13, 2000

    Excellent empirical analysis

    Lott's analysis of the impact of gun carrying laws in more than 3,000 counties in the US addresses the concerns of those who inspire to ban guns in America. Lott's conclusion is insightful, analytical, and unbias.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 16, 2000

    A Must read for anti-gun, and Pro gun People.

    I'm a member of the NRA and a college student who witnessed first hand a highschool shooting a few years ago. It happened in my small hometown of Springfield Oregon. The author of the book More Guns, Less Crime did an excellent job researching and writing this book. 'LONG LIVE JOHN LOTT' !!

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