Comments: Confirming ‘More Guns, Less Crime’

by | Aug 26, 2022

Analyzing county-level data for the entire United States from 1977 to 2000, we find annual reductions in murder rates between 1.5% and 2.3% for each additional year that a right to carry law is in effect. For the first five years that such a law is in effect, the...

More Readers of Gun Magazines, But Not More Crimes

by | Feb 3, 2020

The paper describes an analysis of the relationship between changes in the number of guns and changes in the number of crimes. Both variables are non-negative integers with large mass points at zero, and both variables are likely to affect each other. We account for...

Confirming “More Guns, Less Crime”

by | Feb 3, 2020

Analyzing county-level data for the entire United States from 1977 to 2000, we find annual reductions in murder rates between 1.5% and 2.3% for each additional year that a right-to-carry law is in effect. For the first five years that such a law is in effect, the...