Gun Crime in Scotland
Note the connection to illegal drugs. Thanks to John Williamson for sending the link.
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posted by John Lott at 12:33 PM
Amazed how lucky I am that I have had jobs where I could just think about whatever I wanted to think about. This summer I will be moving to the University of Maryland. Previously I held positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989. I have published over 90 articles in academic journals. I received my Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.
-Research finding a drop in violent crime rates from Right-to-carry laws
-Ranking Economists
-National Academies of Science Panel on Firearms
-Baghdad murder rate
-Arming Pilots
-Appalachian law school attack
-Sources for Defensive Gun Uses
-The Merced Pitchfork Killings
-Fraudulent website pretending to be run by me
-Steve Levitt's Correction Letter
-Ian Ayres and John Donohue
-Other issues regarding Steve Levitt
-General discussion of my 1997 and 2002 surveys as well as related surveys
-Problems with Wikipedia
-Errata for Gun Books
Economist and Law Professor David D. Friedman's Blog
Economist Robert G. Hansen's Blog
A debate that I had with George Mason University's Robert Ehrlich on guns
Lyonette Louis-Jacques's page on Firearms Regulation Worldwide
An interview concerning More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
The End of Myth: An Interview with Dr. John Lott
Art DeVany's website, one of the more innovative economists in the last few decades
St. Cloud State University Scholars
Bryan Caplan at George Mason University
Alphecca -- weekly review on the media's coverage of guns
Xrlq -- Some interesting coverage of the law.
Career Police Officer
Gun Law News
Georgia Right-to-Carry
Darnell's The Independent Conservative Blog
Clayton Cramer's Blog
My hidden mathematical ability (a math professor with the same name)
geekwitha45
My Old AEI Web Page
Wrightwing's blog
Al Lowe's blog
St. Maximos' Hut
Dad29
Sonya Jones takes on the Enviros
Eric Rasmusen
William Sjostrom
Dr. T's EconLinks.com
Interview with National Review Online
Updated Media Analysis of Appalachian Law School Attack
Journal of Legal Studies paper on spoiled ballots during the 2000 Presidential Election
Data set from USA Today, STATA 7.0 data set
"Do" File for some of the basic regressions from the paper
Straight Shooting: Firearms, Economics and Public Policy
Are Predatory Commitments Credible? Who Should the Courts Believe?
1 Comments:
It's interesting that the report mentions legally held guns twice (mostly shoguns) inferring that these are the source of the illegally held guns, but does not attempt any reconcilliation of figures.
e.g.
how many (mandatory) gun safes have been forced open.
Number of guns taken (and value, are these best sidelock doules worth more than a house?)
Breakdown of type of guns used in crime
Breakdown of type of gun causing injury (was it indeed a side by side double loaded with No 7 shot? or had the stolen shotgun mysteriously turned into a 9mm pistol?)
I think this would show a very different picture to the one being painted by the reporter
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