mcculloch@mail.utexas.edu (Jim McCulloch) wrote:

>In article , "M. Eglestone"
> wrote:

>>  Jim, does it really make ANY difference to anyone if Kleck was right
>> or wrong? 
>
>Yes, it does. If he is right, or mostly right, gun ownership reduces
>crime.  If he is wrong, or mostly wrong, it does not. So, if you care
>about reducing crime, it's important to know whether he is right or
>wrong.  If you don't care about reducing crime, then you have no reason to
>care about Kleck's figures.

Nagin and Black "cherry picked" time periods from Prof John Lott's
paper(1) and the best they could do was show that carry concealed
neither increased or decreased crime.  Lott's study, which covered 17
years and over 3,000 U.S. counties showed that CCW did lower crimes of
violence.


1.  See "More Guns, Less Crime," Prof John Lott, 1998, pages 128-29,
131, 135-41. and others.


Sam A. Kersh
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