Dan A. Black and Daniel S. Nagin state that my article with David Mustard assumes that the effect of concealed‐handgun laws is constant over time, that the effect is the same across states, that the article does not control for local time trends, and that we did not...
This is the second report of a research project on violent assault in Chicago. The first, a study of fatal and nonfatal assaults with knives and guns, produced evidence to support three conclusions: (1) Most homicide is not the result of a single-minded intention to...
IN 1968, after five years of debate on firearms control, Congress passed a Gun Control Act designed to “provide support to Federal, State, and local law enforcement officials in their fight against crime and violence.” This paper reports on an effort to...
Using cross-sectional time-series data for U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992, we find that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did not have right-to-carry...
