Nine more years of data in this third edition of "More Guns, Less Crime."
When I read the second edition eight years ago, I was pleased that John Lott's hypothesis of the mid-1990's had up held.
After all, it's just common sense that if a potential rapist thought a woman might be able to protect herself with a gun that he would be less likely to attack, being the cowards rapists are.
But the leap from common sense to policy formation sometimes takes facts.
Fortunately, this book is packed with them.
Besides showing that no state that has adopted right-to-carry legislation has seen any of the parade of horribles that opponents trot out… Read more
