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	Guns and crime - Biocrawler
		Worthy of note, however, is that those who seek to ban guns, and the defensive use of them, have never managed to prove any correlation of reduced gun crime with tighter gun laws.
		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.
		The 1993 US Brady Bill is an example of a gun control law that has been generally correlated with a decrease, not an increase, in overall crime levels.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Guns_and_crime (533 words)

	Guns and crime: the great debate -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY
		According to a University at Albany publication of 2001 FBI statistics, the most recent available, the percentage of violent crimes committed with guns in New York state was virtually the same as in Montana -- 17.7 percent in New York and 17.4 percent in Montana.
		The same is true for other states: Colorado and Connecticut, for example, have gun laws as different as New York's from Montana's, but they have about the same percentage of violent crime committed with guns.
		Statistics show no clear relationship between strict gun laws and the rate of gun crimes -- a fact that raises questions about the politically charged debate over gun control as a means of combating crime.
	www.timesunion.com /AspStories/story.asp?category=&storyID=295749&BCCode=&newsdate=10/17/2004 (598 words)

	Guns and Crime
		Guns and Crime: Handgun Victimization, Firearm Self-Defense, and Firearm Theft
		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.
		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.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /bjs/abstract/hvfsdaft.htm (98 words)

	Guns Used In Crime
		Guns Used In Crime: Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice
		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.
		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.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /bjs/abstract/guic.htm (63 words)

	Guns Vs. Crime
		However, the problem with this position by gun control supporters is that there is no evidence to show that any of their laws have ever reduced crime or violence.
		The issue of continued high crime is especially disconcerting when comparing the crime rates in these gun control Utopias to the crime rates in areas that have not gone the route of extreme gun control.
		In fact, there is evidence that gun control can and has contributed to increased crime levels in areas that enacted measures such as licensing, registration, various bans, and other laws meant to harass, discourage, and prevent law abiding citizens from owning a firearm.
	www.american-partisan.com /cols/blanks/081400.htm (1397 words)

	frontline: hot guns: RING OF FIRE / Guns and Crime \| PBS
		Of these guns, 56 percent were believed to be worth less than $50, 71 percent had a barrel length of 3 inches or less, and 61 percent were.32 caliber or smaller.
		With this key refinement, it is possible to compare the number of traced guns made by a particular manufacturer to the total number of guns produced by that manufacturer that might have been traced.
		Guns from the Gun Valley manufacturers were involved in only 4,307 traces, a decrease of 32 percent, although these manufacturers had produced more than twice as many handguns since the beginning of 1987.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/ring/crime.html (1333 words)

	On Guns and Crime (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Guns are a significant part of the mystique of crime novels and thrillers.
		Although I’m against gun controls that hamper or deny law-abiding citizens the right to defend themselves, I’m all for strict and tough enforcement of gun laws that prohibit criminals from using them in the commission of a crime.
		Ashcroft also acknowledged that law enforcement officers experience first-hand the devastation caused by gun crimes and among the victims are many police officers who died in the line of duty.
	www.orchardpressmysteries.com /on_guns_and_crime.html (970 words)

	Guns & Crime
		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.
		A gun kept in the home is four times more likely to be used in an unintentional shooting than in an act of self defense.
		In the year 2000, of all criminal gun traces by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, 88 percent found that the possessor of the firearm was not the legal purchaser.
	www.scottchurchimages.com /enviro/sjgun.asp (4210 words)

	Amazon.com: More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics): Books: John ...
		Comparing crime trends in states that did and did not change their laws, Lott concludes that shall-issue laws reduce violent crime.
		He finds, for example, that both increasing the rate of unemployment and reducing income reduces the rate of violent crimes and that reducing the number of fl women 40 years old or older (who are rarely either perpetrators or victims of murder) substantially reduces murder rates.
		Manufacturers made guns to hold more rounds, increased the power of the rounds and the speed with which the bullets could be shot, and at the same time made guns smaller and more concealable.
	www.amazon.com /More-Guns-Less-Crime-Understanding/dp/0226493636 (1874 words)

	Guns, Crime, and the Swiss - by Stephen P. Halbrook
		England has strict gun control laws, ergo, the argument goes, the homicide rate is far lower than in the United States.
		Moreover, using data through 1996, the U.S. Department of Justice study Crime and Justice concluded that in England the robbery rate was 1.4 times higher, the assault rate was 2.3 higher, and the burglary rate was 1.7 times higher than in the United States.
		In a 1994 gun debate, Senator Larry Craig, who is an NRA board member, argued that in Switzerland "there are as many guns as there are people," yet the crime rate is low.
	www.stephenhalbrook.com /articles/guns-crime-swiss.html (2154 words)

	GUNS IN AMERICA: Part 2 of 4
		The gun is part of a stockpile that police use to compare against weapons suspected of being used in a crime.
		The rest are recovered during investigations of the crimes that worry people most: 5,000 in homicides and an equal number in assaults; 2,000 in burglary and almost that many in robberies; 10,000 in drug-related offenses.
		The Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, a recent ATF study, found that one out of 10 guns used in a crime and recovered by police came from someone 17 or younger.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/nation/guns/gunpart2.html (1230 words)

	Guns and Crime in Alaska, 1987-1992 [abstract]
		This table and chart illustrating the use of firearms in crime in Alaska are based on UCR data for Alaska and for the U.S. on the use of firearms in the commission of the crimes of murder, robbery, and aggravated assault.
		Because the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)—upon which the accompanying article, “Guns and Crime,” is based—surveys victims, it reflects data both on crimes reported to the police and those that were not reported.
		Moreover, data on the use of firearms in violent crime in Alaska should be considered carefully, as reporting inconsistencies and variation in the number of crimes—particularly murder—committed from year to year may affect statistical significance.
	justice.uaa.alaska.edu /forum/f111sp94/d_gunsak.html (226 words)

	Independent Women's Forum: John Lott: More Guns, Less Crime
		I have also found that the states now experiencing the largest reduction in crime are also the ones with the fastest-growing rates of gun ownership.
		When the attack occurred, he ran all the way to his car, got the gun, came back, pointed the gun at the attacker, and at gunpoint ordered him to the ground and held him there for more than five minutes before the police arrived.
		The ability to defend oneself with a gun is particularly important for those people who are not the physically strongest members of society.
	www.iwf.org /issues/issues_detail.asp?ArticleID=511 (876 words)

	Deltoid » More guns Less crime
		On the hand with 50,000 or so violent crimes in Dade county each year and only 2 DGUs by CCW holders it is not reasonable for a criminal pulling a violent crime to expect to be thwarted by a CCW holder.
		Of course, the thought that shall-issue laws caused crime to drop by almost twenty-five percent in the thirteenth year after passage and then caused it to increase by almost twenty-one percent in the fourteenth year is obviously untenable.
		Those crimes are possibly committed with greater frequency because they are also less lucrative than robbery, explaining the increase in overall crime committed while experiencing a decrease in violent crime.
	timlambert.org /category/lott/more_guns_less_crime (11286 words)

	Discriminations: Guns And Crime
		Benjamin acknowledges the reasonableness of the belief that "in the absence of evidence of a benefit states should allow people to carry guns," but his quoted statement, although it does not specifically equate "benefits to society" with reducing crime, still seems to limit the justification, or desirability, of guns to their role in reducing crime.
		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.
		Gun advocates would have a more sincere argument if their ownership campaigns were targetted at that market.
	www.discriminations.us /2004/12/guns_and_crime.html (877 words)

	Comparing Guns And Crime In England And The U.S. \| Daily Policy Digest \| NCPA
		Comparing Guns And Crime In England And The U.S. "Guns and Violence," a new book by Joyce Lee Malcolm, published by Harvard Press, delves into the question of whether more or fewer guns result in more or less crime.
		She attempts to answer it by comparing the experiences of England with those of the U.S. She finds that since England started severely regulating guns in the middle of the 20th century, that country's rates of violent crime have been on the rise.
		In the U.S., states which allow the carrying of concealed weapons have experienced a reduction in crime.
	www.ncpa.org /sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=6361 (251 words)

	John R. Lott Jr. on Gun Control on National Review Online
		The British government banned handguns in 1997 but recently reported that gun crime in England and Wales nearly doubled in the four years from 1998-99 to 2002-03.
		Crime was not supposed to rise after handguns were banned.
		Violent crime rates averaged 32-percent higher in the six years after the law was passed (from 1997 to 2002) than they did in 1995.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/lott200508190817.asp (768 words)

	MORE GUNS, LESS 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.
		His research argues that increasing gun control is associated with rising, not falling, crime rates.
		This is a powerful, logically argued, and thoroughly documented rebuttal to the emotionally overwrought arguments of many gun control advocates.
	www.liberty-tree.org /ltn/more-guns-less-crime.html (149 words)

	NRA-ILA :: Fact Sheets
		Since then, "gun control" laws have been rolled back, the number of privately-owned guns has risen to an all-time high, and violent crime has dropped to a 30-year low.
		In 2005, states with RTC laws, compared to the rest of the country, had lower violent crime rates on average: total violent crime lower by 22%, murder by 30%, robbery by 46%, and aggravated assault by 12%.
		In 2005, total violent crime was lower by 38%, murder by 43%, rape by 25%, robbery by 48%, and aggravated assault by 33%.
	www.nraila.org /Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=206&issue=007 (796 words)

	Guns and crime in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		A European example would be to compare the violent crime levels between the United Kingdom, which has very strict rules against gun ownership, to Switzerland which has widespread private gun ownership, albeit under radically different conditions than in the US.
		In addition, the firearms crime rate in the United Kingdom has massively increased since an almost total ban on handguns in 1997/8, with violent gun crimes, including shootings to death, increasing at around 40% year on year, for over five years, despite otherwise declining levels of reported crime levels.
		Critics argue that the reduction was more driven by improving economic and other factors than by the gun control regulations, and further point out that during this same period, many states began issuing concealed carry licenses, resulting in increasing numbers of lawfully armed citizens.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Guns_and_crime (817 words)

	More Guns Reduce Crime (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of them is their seemingly plausible argument that gun control and outright ban of certain weapons will reduce crime.
		It is estimated that there are 2.5 million instances where guns are used for self-defense and stopped a crime.
		In most of these cases gun owners fired warning shots or threatened perpetrators by pointing or referring to their guns.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/wew/articles/95/more-guns-less-crime.htm (583 words)

	Rod D. Martin: Fewer Guns = More Crime
		And in fact, gun ownership has been shown in survey after survey to be one of the single most important factors in preventing violent crime.
		The common sense of gun ownership is inescapable: a family, or a single mother, alone at home, facing an armed intruder in the middle of the night, does not have time to call 911.
		Private gun ownership means people can help protect their families and keep the peace; it also makes certain that crime does not pay.
	www.thevanguard.org /thevanguard/columns/000711.shtml (880 words)

	Transcript: More Guns, Less Crime? 7/01/98
		Lyn Bates, contributing editor to Women and Guns magazine, wrote that guns, kept for self-defense, should be kept in a locked box and that children should not be allowed to see the gun owner open the box.
		With regard to the second point, reducing gun ownership by criminals would be great, unfortunately, the rules that groups such as Handgun Control propose have a greater impact on gun ownership by law abiding citizens.
		My research indicates that gun ownership is the most effective means for people to defend themselves, particularly for women and poor fls who live in high crime urban areas.
	www.time.com /time/community/transcripts/chattr070198.html (3371 words)

	Interview with John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime
		High crime urban areas and neighborhoods with large minority populations have the greatest reductions in violent crime when citizens are legally allowed to carry concealed handguns.
		It is difficult to obtain comparable data on crime rates both over time and across countries, and to control for all the other differences across the legal systems and cultures across countries.
		Even the cross country polling data on gun ownership is difficult to assess, because ownership is underreported in countries where gun ownership is illegal and the same polls are never used across countries.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/493636.html (1527 words)

	Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns (Gun Control Study by John R. Lott, Jr. and David B. Mustard, ...
		Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns (Gun Control Study by John R. Lott, Jr.
		The Lott/Mustard gun control study was available here in HTML, RTF, Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, Adobe Acrobat, text, and zipped (Word) formats - it was the old July 26, 1996 draft of the study.
		Gun Laws, Gun Control, and Gun Rights (educational resource guide published at JURIST: The Law Professors' Network web site for individuals on all sides in the ongoing controversy over the legal status of guns in the United States; includes links to
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /~llou/guns.html (675 words)

	Do Guns Cause Crime?
		For example, when aggressors have guns, they are (1) less likely to physically attack their victims, (2) less likely to injure the victim given an attack, but (3) more likely to kill the victim, given an injury.
		Juvenile crime records are generally unavailable, but to the extent they are, juvenile killers have crime careers as extensive or more than do adult killers -- and so do their victims.
		Like demographics, geographic patterns of gun ownership relate inversely to crime: "areas in England, America and Switzerland with the highest rates of gun ownership are in fact those with the lowest rates of violence." This is true of Canada also.
	hnn.us /articles/871.html (2290 words)

	Reason Magazine - Cold Comfort: An Interview with John R. Lott
		Proponents of gun control were desperate to discredit Lott, because his findings contradicted their dark predictions about what would happen if states allowed law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns.
		If I were to take the average crime rate before the law goes into effect and the average afterward, where the point of the V is when the law changed, they're going to be the same.
		And when you compare probabilities, accidental gun deaths in the home are trivial compared to the rate at which other types of deaths occur from crimes where innocent victims are attacked and a gun would benefit them.
	reason.com /0001/fe.js.cold.shtml (4679 words)

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