More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Third Edition

· University of Chicago Press
4.6
17 reviews
Ebook
472
Pages

About this ebook

On its initial publication in 1998, John R. Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. More than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws: despite all the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever been able to refute Lott’s simple, startling conclusion that more guns mean less crime. Relying on the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever conducted on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws, the book directly challenges common perceptions about the relationship of guns, crime, and violence. For this third edition, Lott draws on an additional ten years of data—including provocative analysis of the effects of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C—that brings the book fully up to date and further bolsters its central contention.

Ratings and reviews

4.6
17 reviews
A Google user
March 4, 2012
Given all the various state laws and their dates for enforcement, the author takes the challenge of trying to compare apples to apples on the results of gun control laws in reducing crime.
Daniel Nolan
December 9, 2016
I read a fair amount of research on this topic. Many studies, on both sides of the argument, usually make mistakes that are easy to find. But the magnitude of Lott's work is staggering. Approaching the same data set from many angles simultaneously puts this work beyond reproach. In the various criticisms I've read of this work, I find them to be personal (which is unacceptable for academic research) and careless. By careless I mean to say they make statements of inaccuracies that are flatly wrong.
1 person found this review helpful
A Google user
This is a great book and it points out the points that every american needs to know about concealed carry and guns. I fully recommend this book.

About the author

John R. Lott, Jr., is the author five books, including Freedomnomics and Are Predatory Commitments Credible? Who Should the Courts Believe?, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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