Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 7, 2007
Nations' Rates of Private Gun Ownership Do Not Correlate to Rates of Murder
Forum Column - By Don B. Kates and Carol Hehmeyer - European public policy is proving that banning firearms is the best way to ensure more violent crime and higher murder rates.
By Don B. Kates and Carol Hehmeyer
Many people think that nations with more firearms will have more murder and that banning firearms will reduce murder and other violence. This canard does not comport, however, with criminological research in the U.S. or elsewhere.
An extensive study that one of us (Kates) recently published with Canadian criminologist Gary Mauser confirms ...
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