[bad company]

For years all they have been doing is devising studies and procuring information in a manner that supports the anti-gun agenda. (ie; compiling all the people killed with guns but not differentiating between people killed while commiting a crime and others) I won't hold my breath but it would be nice to see something resembling the scientific method (as per sir Francic Bacon) used.

[marmar]

Hiddy Ho.......BC..

[Prime Choice]

Someone should send those Poindexters a few copies of John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime."

[Coleus]

Gun control doesn't reduce crime, violence, say studies

Lack of Data Leaves Effectiveness of Gun Control Effort a Mystery. 

Gun Control

Gun-grabbers Admit Guns Do Not Cause Violence (Aarg! My heart!)

Legal guns won't increase illegal gun violence

Minnesota CCW: Legal guns won't increase illegal gun violence

Guns and Violence - a good read.    Guns and violence        Guns and violence

Why wait to tackle gun violence? (MMM's Dees-Thomasas and MPPGV wants to ban PUMP ACTION GUNS)

Violence, Guns, and Drugs: A Cross-Country Analysis

Why I ..believe Guns Do Not Increase Violence (A Professor with some Common Sense..... )

Guns and Violence: Guns Aren't the Root of all Evil

[Waco]

Pssst! Pssst! Ban crime, you IDIOTS!! ooops

[lodwick]

What a HUGE pantload. Please send these jackasses this Armed and Secure link.

[secretagent]

Not a question of data.

Do we trust a government who doesn't trust us with guns?

[Blood of Tyrants]

There is no credible evidence that "right-to-carry" laws, which allow qualified adults to carry concealed handguns, either decrease or increase violent crime. To date, 34 states have enacted these laws.

Excuse me, but 34 states have instituted "right to carry" laws yet not one of them has reported an increase in crime.

[tarheelswamprat]

There are few things I despise more than dishonest scientists and/or scholars. This article is a prime example.

[o_zarkman44]

I have nothing to contribute to the scientific study except these words "BACK OFF AND LEAVE THE 2ND AMENDMENT ALONE!"

Crime statistics and firearm ownership statistics have little correlation to each other except a firearm is occasionally used in a crime and criminals care little about gun laws.

[umgud]

The article is a moot point.

The 2cnd Amendment wasn't contigent on statistics, good or bad.

[Pharmboy]

See here also

[punster]

We need to remember the only requirement for employment at the Brady Center, the Million Moron March, the Violence Policy Center, and the other gun control advocacy grous is being a damned liar.

[Mulder]

Policy questions related to gun ownership and proposals for gun control touch on some of the most contentious issues in American politics

It's not a matter of "policy". It's a matter of the basic Rights of a Free man or woman.

A Free man has a Right to keep and bear arms, regardless of what his neighbors, or the state says.

The state has no more authority to disarm a Free man than it has to send a Free man to a concentration camp.

As for "decreasing crime", John Lott looked at it county-by-county and concluded a decrease in violent crime in right-to-carry states, and a slight increase in property crime in those states.

But it really doesn't matter. A basic Right is not dependent on the behavior of others.

[Wonder Warthog]

"National Institute of Justice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Joyce Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation."

Why do I suspect that all these funding sources are anti-gun?? Certainly the NIJ, and CDC are. I don't know about the other three, but I have suspicions.

[Simo Hayha]

-- There is no credible evidence that "right-to-carry" laws, which allow qualified adults to carry concealed handguns, either decrease or increase violent crime. To date, 34 states have enacted these laws.

Others have mentioned John Lott's, More Guns Less Crime and I will, as well. It's incredible that Lott's work has obviously been ignored. Lott used a multitude of data from every county in the USA to show that concealed carry laws decrease and deter violent crimes. It is well-known that in London, where the public is disarmed, violent crime is on the rise.

Lott was accused of being a lackey of the gun manufacturers, and that charge was repeated, even after it was shown that his study was honest and scholarly. With the evidence that Lott provided, how can the authors of this report reach the conclusions they have?