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''More Guns, Less Crime'' is a book by Dr. John Lott that examines how violent crime rates change when states pass Shall Issue Concealed Carry laws. He presents the results of his statistical analysis of crime data for every County in the United States during 18 years from 1977 to 1994. Lott also examines the effects of Gun Control laws, including the Brady Law . MAIN TOPICS Below are summaries of the main topics discussed in ''More Guns, Less Crime''. Shall issue laws Lott examines the effects of Shall Issue laws on violent crime across the United States. His conclusion is that shall issue laws, which allow citizens to carry concealed weapons, steadily decreases violent crime. He explains that this result makes sense because criminals are deterred by the risk of attacking an armed victim. As more citizens arm themselves, the danger to criminals increases. Training requirements Lott examines the effects of training requirements on crime rate and accident rate. He finds that, surprisingly, training requirements have very little effect on both crime rates and accident rates. Waiting periods Lott examines the effects of waiting periods. These include limiting the time before purchasing a gun, and limiting the time before obtaining a concealed carry permit. Brady Law Lott examines the effects of the Brady law. Other countries Lott spends some time discussing gun ownership rates and crime rates in other countries, such as the United Kingdom . CONTROVERSY Because of the controversial nature of Gun Politics , this book has received support and opposition from many different groups. Support Lott has given his data to academics at whatever universities have asked for it.. Among those academics are:
The book ''The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies'', which examines the Gun Control policies of many nations around the world and supports the ideas presented in Lott's work. Opposition A study by Ayres and Donohue of Stanford Law School stated that Lott's conclusions were incorrect. A review of his book ''More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws'' in the New England Journal Of Medicine states: {Link without Title} finds, for example, that both increasing the rate of unemployment and reducing income reduces the rate of violent crimes and that reducing the number of black women 40 years old or older (who are rarely either perpetrators or victims of murder) substantially reduces murder rates. Indeed, according to Lott's results, getting rid of older black women will lead to a more dramatic reduction in homicide rates than increasing arrest rates or enacting shall-issue laws Rutgers sociology professor Ted Goertzel stated that "Lott’s massive data set was simply unsuitable for his task", and that he "compar {Link without Title} trends in Idaho and West Virginia and Mississippi with trends in Washington, D.C. and New York City" without proper statistical controls. He alleged that Econometric methods are susceptible to misuse and can even become Junk Science . http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/mythsofmurder.htm ISBN
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