One gun ban that is working very well
posted by John Lott at 12:35 PM
7/14/2006
- Name: John Lott
- Location: Virginia, United States
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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.
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Straight Shooting: Firearms, Economics and Public Policy
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3 Comments:
Is there *ANY* gun control scheme, outside of possibly Japan, that has actually reduced violent crime?
and the opposite is occurring in Florida.
but the real crux of the problem is Prohibition. the war on drugs harms more than it protects.
like any other government program: the intended outcome is never achieved, and mostly the opposite occurrs.
RE: Japan
We must not discount cultural differences in determining the behavior of a society. Just because Japan has *extremely* rigid gun control, and low crime, there is no reason to directly correlate the two.
The opposite can also apply, of course.
Unrestricted gun ownership, IMO, helps shape the environment in which we live, altering incentives/stakes, in a manner conducive to lowering crime.
The fact that Japan enjoys such low crime *despite* its gun control laws, speaks volumes about the civility of their society.
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