Lott, John R.
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998
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Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008