Facts, footnotes & charts now available

[Skirmisher]

"Would Banning Frearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?" A review of International and Some Domestic Evidence by Don B Kates and Gary Mauser in the current issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy-(Harvard JLPP-Current Issue). It is 46 pages of facts, footnotes and charts that every judge and congress person MUST read. Of course it will not effect the Brady, don't bother me with facts, Bunch, but thinking people will come to the same conclusions that thinking people always have, stringent gun controls will NOT reduce murder, violent crime or suicides anywhere in the world.

 

[DigitalWarrior]

Links?

 

[LawBot5000]

Even a jstor link would be cool.

 

[Jimmie]

http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/1564/

Abstract

The world abounds in instruments with which people can kill each other. Is the widespread availability of one of these instruments, firearms, a crucial determinant of the incidence of murder? Or do patterns of murder and/or violent crime reflect basic socio-economic and/or cultural factors to which the mere availability of one particular form of weaponry is irrelevant?

This article examines a broad range of international data that bear on two distinct but interrelated questions: first, whether widespread firearm access is an important contributing factor in murder and/or suicide, and second, whether the introduction of laws that restrict general access to firearms has been successful in reducing violent crime, homicide or suicide. Our conclusion from the available data is that suicide, murder and violent crime rates are determined by basic social, economic and/or cultural factors with the availability of any particular one of the world’s myriad deadly instrument being irrelevant.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

 

[LawBot5000]

Sweet, there goes the first half of my afternoon. Thanks for the links.

 

[oobray]

This was posted on here already not too long ago. It's a great read, it even got some of my liberal profs to think about the issue.