Gun control legislation: impact and ideology

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Gun control legislation: impact and ideology

Category: Crime, Firearm Policies|Journal: Law & Policy|Author: M Dezee|Year: 1983

This analysis attempts to measure the impact of state laws upon the rates of gun violence. While controlling for several standard social phenomena and using two different statistical techniques, it appears that laws governing the use of handguns in the various states have little effect on the rates of gun crime. It is suggested that the possible reason for such ineffectiveness is not necessarily the nature of the solutions (laws), but rather the misunderstanding of the problem (gun violence) by policy implementers.

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