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The Problem with the Harvard Study Which Found That Gun Control Does Not Prevent Murders and Other Violent Crime

Posted on the 01 September 2013 by Mikeb302000
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A study which was recently published by Harvard took a look at firearm ownership, gun laws and violent crime, and suicide rates around the world. The authors sought to answer the question would banning firearms reduce murder and suicide?The study, which was conducted by Don B. Kates, an American criminologist and constitutional lawyer, and Gary Mauser, a Canadian criminologist and university professor, offered a stark truth: More guns does not equal more deaths and less guns does not equal less deaths.
Let's see who these guys Kates and Mauser are? Unbiased academics who are seeking the truth or rabid gun-rights fanatics who know how to get results with overly-complicated statistics? Don Kates: Don Kates is a retired American professor of constitutional and criminal law, and a criminologist and research fellow with The Independent Institute in Oakland, California. His books includeArmed: New Perspectives On Gun ControlRestricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak OutFirearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy, and The Great American Gun Debate: Essays on Firearms and Violence (with Gary Kleck). As a civil liberties lawyer he has represented gun owners attacking the constitutionality of certain firearms laws. Gary Mauser:
  1. Gun control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control
    These include Don Kates, Gary Mauser, John Lott, David Mustard, Joyce Malcolm and Gary Kleck. For example, a 2002 review of international gun control ... Gun politics in the United States - ‎Gun politics - ‎Arms control - ‎Defensive gun use
As I suspected.

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