Coast to Coast radio show had a guest on by the name of John Lott.
He wrote a book called More Guns Less Crime. Here is a link to him if you want to read some of his thinking.
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/
For someone deeply involved in the data, it can be surprising to see the gap between what is happening and people's perceptions. Surely the media has a big effect.
He wrote a book called More Guns Less Crime. Here is a link to him if you want to read some of his thinking.
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/
For someone deeply involved in the data, it can be surprising to see the gap between what is happening and people's perceptions. Surely the media has a big effect.
The number of gun killings dropped 39% between 1993 and 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in a separate report released Tuesday. Gun crimes that weren’t fatal fell by 69%. However, guns still remain the most common murder weapon in the United States, the report noted. Between 1993 and 2011, more than two out of three murders in the U.S. were carried out with guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found. . . .
