Viktor writes: Of course, we know here in America that the highest crime rates for the past 50 years are in the cities that have the strictest gun control laws (Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Detroit) imposed on innocent people – the distinction being, there can be no gun control that is effective on…

Lawrence Kennon writes: The following documents exactly the kind of “junk science” being foisted off on the public by the medical profession, and in particular the CDC and the NEJM. It does nothing of sort. There are dozens of falsehoods, and dozens of claims that are extremely dubious. It would be possible to put these…

No I have not. I quote from page 173: “there is a positive relationship [of firearms ownership] with firearms murder but not with criminal homicide generally.” See table 9.2 on page 174. I should note again that Bordua felt that this relation was spurious but that his reasoning was faulty. In any case, the relationship…

Pim van Meurs writes: Of course there will always be an uncertainty in the findings that’s why there are statistical error bounds and statistical significance bounds. However in case of gun ownership at city level Kleck showed the causal direction of gun ownership increasing the use of guns in crimes like robbery and assault. David…

Dean Payne writes: “For example, in 1974 Massachusetts passes the Bartley-Fox Law, which requires a special license to carry a handgun outside the home or business. The law is supported by a mandatory prison sentence. Studies by Glenn Pierce and William Bowers of Northeastern University documented that after the law was passed handgun homicides in…

Diederich Andrew Richard said: What you need to know before the fight begins is that the gun control lobby has no intention of fighting a good fight based on truth and accuracy. They intend to use disinformation, inaccuracy and lies to mislead you. And then follows an article full of disinformation, inaccuracy and lies. I’ll…

Diederich Andrew Richard said: According to a 1986 survey of 2,000 imprisoned felons: 57% believed encountering an armed victim is the worst thing that could happen. False. The closest thing I could find in Wright and Rossi [1] to this is 57% agreed that “Most criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than…