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Gun/Crime
Facts
and Statistics
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Targeting Guns : Firearms and Their Control:
This classic work by Gary Kleck is a studious
tome by a revered criminologist. Targeting Guns
is the original source of the "2,500,000 defensive
uses" data as well as a wealth of other information.
Between this and John Lott's masterwork, the gun control
industry has met its statistical demise. One of the most
important aspects of Kleck's book is that even those who support
gun control are completely unable to refute the data and
conclusions herein. Important data is clearly summarized
at the end of each chapter and thus the book makes a good
reference.
Lest anyone tell you Kleck is "pro gun", know he is a
prototypical academic and even includes assessment of pro-gun
myths in this work.
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More Guns, Less Crime:
Considered by many the best statistical
analysis of the lack of effectiveness of gun control
available. Prof. Lott analyzed multiple tiers of data for EVERY
county in the U.S. and confirmed that gun control laws have one
effect on crime - it increases it. Particular study is
made of the grand concealed carry experiment which has made it
possible for people in 90% of the United States to carry
firearms in public ... and with violent crime rates dropping as
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2nd
Amendment Origins |
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That Every Man Be Armed :
The Evolution of a Constitutional Right: Hailed by many as
the best distillation of the twin rights of the individual and
militia to keep and bear arms. Noted left-of-center law
professor Sanford Levinson said of this book "provides
indefatigable research into the second amendment, and all
serious scholars will eternally be in its debt."
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For the Defense of Themselves and
the State: This is the
masterwork of Clayton Cramer, recently made more famous by his
deconstruction of Michael Bellesiles's rather silly notion that
guns were scarce in colonial America. This book covers the
European origins and legislative history of the Second
Amendment, details some 200 state and US Supreme Court decisions
concerning the amendment, and discusses issues such as the role
of racism in the passage of gun control laws during
Reconstruction. This is not light reading. |
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The Origin of the Second Amendment:
This
is a dense, but complete compilation of 500+ documents that had
a direct bearing on the creation of the 2nd Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution. For the scholarly minded or the 2nd
Amendment warrior in need of reference materials. Most
importantly are the details of the votes and debates in the
House and Senate over the Bill of Rights, and the evolution of
the wording of the Second Amendment, which shows with clarity
that it was and is an individual right. |
