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More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics) by John R. Lott, Jr.

In this most momentous book, John R. Lott, Jr., studied the FBI’s massive yearly crime statistics for all 3,054 U.S. counties over 18 years (1977-1994), the largest national survey on gun ownership and state police documentation in illegal gun use, and comes to some startling conclusions: 1. While neither state waiting periods nor the federal […]

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Trigger Locks Hazardous Themselves

The March 23 Associated Press story, “Boy held classmates at gunpoint,” exemplifies the false sense of security conveyed by trigger locks and other “smart gun” technology. Recall that the 12-year-old Ohio boy’s father told police that, “the weapon (a loaded 9mm semi-automatic) had been stored on a dresser top with a fully engaged trigger lock.”

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The Perversion of Science and Medicine: Gun Control and Public Health

Speech delivered at the 17th Annual Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) Meeting Thank you for your kind introduction. It’s my pleasure to have the opportunity to address this distinguished audience of physician colleagues and fellow scientists in Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP). I want to talk about the issue of scientific integrity in public health

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England and Gun Control — Moral Decline of an Empire by Miguel A. Faria, MD

Et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) The Legacy of Revolutions It seems that when it comes to the issue of gun control, England has never gotten over the shock of the American Revolution, when a band of patriots, ordinary armed citizens, citizens who were very protective of their rights and liberties,

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Boundary Violations — Gun Politics in the Doctor’s Office by Timothy Wheeler, MD

Imagine this scenario: you visit your doctor for back pain. Your doctor asks if you have firearms in your home. Then he announces that your family would be better off (especially your children) if you had no guns at all in your house. You leave the doctor’s office feeling uneasy, wondering what guns have to

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