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By John R. Lott Jr.
On its preliminary e-book in 1998, John R. Lott’s extra weapons, much less Crime drew either lavish compliment and heated feedback. greater than a decade later, it maintains to play a key function in ongoing arguments over gun-control legislation: regardless of the entire assaults by way of gun-control advocates, not anyone has ever been capable of refute Lott’s easy, startling end that extra weapons suggest much less crime. hoping on the main carefully accomplished info research ever performed on crime data and right-to-carry legislation, the ebook without delay demanding situations universal perceptions in regards to the dating of weapons, crime, and violence. For this 3rd variation, Lott attracts on an extra ten years of data—including provocative research of the consequences of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C—that brings the ebook totally brand new and extra bolsters its significant rivalry.
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Only these surveys interview enough people to get a useful estimate of gun ownership in individual states. Presidential election polls for 1988 and 1996 included a question on whether a person owned a gun, as well as information on the person’s age, sex, race, income, place of residence, and political views. In 2004, a question on whether a person’s family owned a gun was included. The available 1992, 2000, and 2008 survey data did not include a question on gun ownership. Using the individual respondent data in the 1988 CBS News General Election Exit Poll and the 1996 Voter News Service National General Election Exit Poll, we can construct a very detailed description of the people who own guns.
90 In practice, the distinction between these two grades appears to rely less on premeditation than on whether the act was done without emotion or “in cold blood,” “as is the case [when] someone who kills for money . . ”91 Some academics go beyond these cases or laws to make more general claims about the motives behind crime. ”92 From this he draws the conclusion that “there’s really no statistical explanation” for what causes murder rates to fluctuate. Do criminals respond to disincentives? Or are emotions and attitudes the determining factors in crime?
What if Mr. Smith had a “killer dog,” that bit anyone who abused it (equivalent to arming potential victims)? Or what if Mr. Smith were likely to be arrested and convicted for animal abuse? Several scenarios are plausible. First, he might have found another victim, perhaps a family member, to hit or kick. Or he might have modified his outwardly aggressive acts by merely yelling at family and neighbors or demolishing something. Or he might have repressed his anger—either by bottling up his frustration or finding some nonviolent substitute, such as watching a video, to help him forget the day’s events.