For over a decade, there has been a spirited academic debate over the impact on crime of laws that grant citizens the presumptive right to carry concealed handguns in public – so-called right-to-carry (RTC) laws. In 2005, the National Research Council (NRC) offered a critical evaluation of the ‘more guns, less crime
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
The Impact of Right-To-Carry Laws: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law
Author: ABHAY ANEJA, JOHN J. DONOHUE, III, and ALEXANDRIA ZHANG
Source: Stanford Law School
Publication Date: 6/29/2010
Link: The Impact of Right-To-Carry Laws: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law
Source: Stanford Law School
Publication Date: 6/29/2010
Link: The Impact of Right-To-Carry Laws: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law
Stephan: Here are facts instead of rhetoric and assertions. It gives the lie to claims that if more people were armed gun violence must necessarily go down.
