Collected Works Bookstore presents Fox News commentator John R. Lott for a discussion of his book More Guns, Less Crime, in which he argues that states with the largest increase in gun ownership, including the right to carry concealed handguns, also have the largest drops in violent crimes. Criminals are deterred by higher penalties and just as higher arrest and conviction rates deter crime, so does the risk that someone committing a crime will confront someone able to defend him or herself. Lott supports this position with a statistical argument based on an exhaustive tabulation of various social and economic data drawn from census and other population surveys of 3,054 U.S. counties during 18 years from 1977 to 1994. He fits this data into a large multi-factorial mathematical model of crime rates that shows a reduction in violent crime associated with laws allowing people to freely carry concealed weapons.

John R. Lott is an economist and outspoken Fox News contributor who argues that gun ownership makes us all safer. Nobel laureate Milton Friedman once said that "John Lott has few equals as a perceptive analyst of controversial public policy issues." Newsweek has referred to Lott as "The Gun Crowd's Guru."
Lott earned his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA and has held research positions at academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland, College Park and at the non-academic conservative American Enterprise Institute.

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

By John R. Lott

$18.00

ISBN-13: 9780226493664
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Published: University Of Chicago Press, 5/2010

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