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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
More Guns, Less Crime is out in a new edition, with additional material. The first edition started out with a database of all 3015 counties in the United States over a period of fifteen years. Pretty substantial sample. Now the research has added more years, and I believe on all 3000+ counties too.
No one has ever mounted a successful academic refutation of John Lott's research, either. Makes worthwhile reading. Lott's findings induced him to buy a Ruger revolver and practice with it....
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More on John Lott.....makes worthwhile reading:
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In 1998, John Lott published a book entitled More Guns, Less Crime. In that book he presented statistical evidence that concealed-carry laws were associated with lower crime rates.
In 2002, Ian Ayres and John Donohue analysed a more extensive data set and found that, if anything, concealed carry laws lead to more crime. Lott responded with a new analysis that he claimed confirmed the "more guns, less crime" hypothesis. Ayres and Donohue's response was devastating—Lott's data contained numerous coding errors that, when corrected, eliminated the results and, this was the second time these sort of errors had been found in Lott's data.
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayers/A...ue_comment.pdf
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And another study:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/lott/lott.pdf
No academic refutation of John Lott's research? I count at least two.