Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumTexas Pastor Shot During Home Robbery With His Own Gun
I feel terrible for the friends and family of this Texas pastor , but
this tragedy is exactly why the argument about how guns protect people is such nonsense.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/07/tx-pastor-shot-during-home-robbery-his-own
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)in the face of thousands of the contrary is not proof of any such thing.
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms
Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf
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The Gun Debates New Mythical Number: How Many Defensive Uses Per Year?
Philip J. Cook; Jens Ludwig; David Hemenway
http://home.uchicago.edu/~ludwigj/papers/JPAM_Cook_Ludwig_Hemenway_2007.pdf
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Gun use in the United States: results from two national surveys
D Hemenway, D Azrael, and M Miller
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730664/
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Defensive Gun Uses: New Evidence from a National Survey
Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig
http://home.uchicago.edu/~ludwigj/papers/JQC-CookLudwig-DefensiveGunUses-1998.pdf
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Survey Research and Self-Defense Gun Use: An Explanation of Extreme Overestimates
David Hemenway
http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/hemenway1.htm
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The Myth of Millions of Annual Self-Defense Gun Uses: A Case Study of Survey Overestimates of Rare Events
David Hemenway
http://www.stat.duke.edu/~dalene/chance/chanceweb/103.myth0.pdf
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The relative frequency of offensive and defensive gun uses: results from a national survey
Hemenway D, Azrael D
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11200101
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In the safety of your own home: results from a national survey on gun use at home
Azrael D, Hemenway D
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10619696
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Gun threats against and self-defense gun use by California adolescents
Hemenway D, Miller M
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15066882
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Reality check: using newspapers, police reports, and court records to assess defensive gun use
J Denton and W Fabricius
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730063/
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When criminals are shot: A survey of Washington, DC, jail detainees
May JP, Hemenway D, Oen R, Pitts K
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11104447
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Medical care solicitation by criminals with gunshot wound injuries: a survey of Washington, DC, jail detainees
May JP, Hemenway D, Oen R, Pitts KR
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10647578
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Do criminals go to the hospital when they are shot?
J P May, D Hemenway, A Hall
http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/8/3/236.full
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The effect of nondiscretionary concealed weapon carrying laws on homicide
Hepburn L, Miller M, Azrael D, Hemenway D
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15128143
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The Impact of Right-To-Carry Laws and the NRC Report: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy
Abhay Aneja, John J. Donohue III, Alexandria Zhang
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1632599
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Two Guns, Four Guns, Six Guns, More Guns: Does Arming the Public Reduce Crime?
Albert W. Alschuler
http://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1854&context=vulr
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Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis
Ian Ayres & John J. Donohue III
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayers/Ayres_Donohue_article.pdf
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More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 2006
John Donohue and Ian Ayers
http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=fss_papers
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The Latest Misfires in Support of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis
Ian Ayres & John J. Donohue III
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayers/Ayres_Donohue_comment.pdf
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Yet Another Refutation of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis With Some Help From Moody and Marvell
Ian Ayres and John J. Donohue III
http://econjwatch.org/articles/yet-another-refutation-of-the-more-guns-less-crime-hypothesis-with-some-help-from-moody-and-marvell
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Easing Concealed Firearms Laws: Effects on Homicide in Three States
David McDowall, Colin Loftin and Brian Wiersema
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6855&context=jclc
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The Impact of Shall-Issue Concealed Handgun Laws on Violent Crime Rates: Evidence From Panel Data for Large Urban Cities
Tomislav V. Kovandzic, Thomas B. Marvell and Lynne M. Vieraitis
http://hsx.sagepub.com/content/9/4/292.abstract
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Concealed Handguns: The Counterfeit Deterrent
Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins
http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/rcq/issues/7-2.pdf
(pg. 46)
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Concealed-Gun-Carrying Laws and Violent Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data
Jens Ludwig
http://home.uchicago.edu/ludwigj/papers/IJLE-ConcealedGunLaws-1998.pdf
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Do Right-to-Carry Laws Deter Violent Crime?
Dan A. Black and Daniel Nagin
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/468019?uid=3739848&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103225911223
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More Guns, More Crime
Mark Duggan
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/dranove/htm/dranove/coursepages/Mgmt%20469/guns.pdf
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)BTW, Phil Cook verified Kleck's study within his margin of error.
Tomislav V. Kovandzic study:
The results provide no evidence that the laws reduce or increase rates of violent crime.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)Authors and many not her publications. Funny how that happens in a group that speaks so often and loud about studies.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Bellisiles?
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)existence, and most pro-2A backers are not wont to do it again and again. It's not so much "funny" as it is boring and tedious. But if you can find the archives in DU, you will find responses to the "studies." Again and again.
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Cars scare me, I don't like them. Nobody should get to have a car because they scare me and they hurt people.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)been rear ended by a distracted driver and it is not fun.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Clown-like, but possibly fun!
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)for self defense use is more common so it rarely makes the news, especially if the weapon is not fired.
A 16-year old male has been charged with 1st degree burglary. The suspect is a juvenile, so his name wont be released.
http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/25786521/red-lake-falls-store-owner-holds-burglar-at-gunpoint-for-police
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)And the gun controllers love that and feed the fear.
Gun ownership, too, goes increasingly unreported, as you know.
Controllers then get to cite dramatic drops in the percentage of homes with them.
I'm sure the percentage has fallen, but not by those figures.