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    Please post good links to research and a brief description to help in the choice of each link.
    To help with broken links please include the title, so a Google search will help to find it.

    Gun Facts - Your Guide to Debunking Gun Control Myths
    http://www.gunfacts.info/
    Get this if nothing else

    South African articles; firearms and the Firearms Control Act

    Various subjects, debunking the myth of less gun-less crime
    http://www.richmarksentinel.com/rs_a...s.asp?conid=13

    Human rights and Gun Confiscation

    "Human Rights and Gun Confiscation," David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant, & Joanne D. Eisen, 26 Quinnipiac Law Review (Number 2, 2008) 385.
    This Article also provides the most complete collection ever presented of international survey data about why people in various countries own guns. The final version of this paper is now online at:
    http://davekopel.org/2A/Foreign/Huma...nfiscation.pdf

    The Anti-Gun Mentality
    Raging Against Self Defense: A Psychiatrist Examines. The Anti-Gun Mentality. By Sarah Thompson, M.D. (Article provided by JPFO)
    http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/ragi...elfdefense.htm
    http://www.davechampion.net/uploads/...%20Defense.pdf
    http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/ragingagain.PDF

    Christians and guns
    One may believe banning guns is a good thing, and campaign for gun control; nobody has the right to do it in the name of God.
    Christians and Guns
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/741990/posts

    Research finding a drop in violent crime rates from Right-to-carry laws

    Using Placebo Laws to Test “More Guns, Less Crime” by Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok, published in Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy
    http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol4/iss1/art1/

    The Impact of Gun Laws on Police Deaths by David Mustard, published in the Journal of Law and Economics
    http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dmustard/police.pdf

    Privately Produced General Deterrence By BRUCE L. BENSON AND BRENT D. MAST, published in the Journal of Law and Economics
    http://johnrlott.tripod.com/mast.pdf

    Does the Right to Carry Concealed Handguns Deter Countable Crimes? Only a Count Analysis Can Say By FLORENZ PLASSMANN AND T. NICOLAUS TIDEMAN, published in the Journal of Law and Economics
    http://johnrlott.tripod.com/tideman.pdf

    Testing for the Effects of Concealed Weapons Laws: Specification Errors and Robustness By CARLISLE E. MOODY, published in the Journal of Law and Economics
    http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/323313

    Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime Revisited: Clustering, Measurement Error, and State-by-State Break downs by John R. Lott, Jr.
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...ract_id=523002

    Right-to-Carry Concealed Weapon Laws and Homicide in Large U.S. Counties: The Effect on Weapon Types, Victim Characteristics, and Victim-Offender Relationships By DAVID E. OLSON AND MICHAEL D. MALTZ, published in the Journal of Law and Economics
    http://johnrlott.tripod.com/Maltz.pdf

    Criminal Deterrence, Geographic Spillovers, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns by Stephen Bronars and John R. Lott, Jr., published in the American Economic Review
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...tract_id=56862

    Confirming More Guns, Less Crime by Florenz Plassmann and John Whitley, published in the Stanford Law Review
    http://johnrlott.tripod.com/Plassmann_Whitley.pdf

    A Note on the Use of County-Level UCR Data by John R. Lott, Jr. and John Whitley, published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...ract_id=320102

    Safe-Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime By JOHN R. LOTT, JR., AND JOHN E. WHITLEY, published in the Journal of Law and Economics
    http://johnrlott.tripod.com/whitney.pdf

    The Impact of Banning Juvenile Gun Possession By Thomas B. Marvell, published in the Journal of Law and Economics
    http://johnrlott.tripod.com/Marvell.pdf

    The Effect of Concealed Weapons Laws: An Extreme Bound Analysis by William Alan Bartley and Mark A Cohen, published in Economic Inquiry
    http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/BibEc/data/Articles /oupecinquv%3A36%3Ay%3A1998%3Ai%3A2%3Ap%3A258-65.html

    Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement By John R. Lott, Jr. and William Landes, published in The Bias Against Guns
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...ract_id=161637

    More Readers of Gun Magazines, But Not More Crimes by Florenz Plassmann and John R. Lott, Jr.
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...ract_id=320107

    More Guns, Less Crime: A Response to Ayres and Donohue's 1999 book review in the American Law and Economics Review by John R. Lott, Jr.
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...ract_id=248328

    Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns by John R. Lott, Jr. and David B. Mustard published in the Journal of Legal Studies
    http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JLS...ts/261lot.html

    For other papers including some that find no impact from right-to-carry laws see:Gun Cite
    http://www.guncite.com/lott_more_papers.html

    Research on gun laws

    Roth, Koper, et al., Impact Evaluation of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994, March 13, 1997, Reedy and Koper,
    http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=406797

    "Impact of handgun types on gun assault outcomes: a comparison of gun assaults involving semiautomatic pistols and revolvers," Injury Prevention 2003, Koper et al.,
    http://ip.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/9/2/151

    Report to the National Institute of Justice, An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003, June 2004, Wm. J. Krouse,
    http://www.sas.upenn.edu/jerrylee/jl...r_aw_final.pdf

    Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, "Semiautomatic Assault Weapons Ban," Dec. 16, 2004; Library of Congress, Report for Congress: Firearms Regulations in Various Foreign Countries, May 1998, LL98-3, 97-2010;

    Task Force on Community Preventive Service, "First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws," Morbidity and Mortaility Weekly Report, Oct. 3, 2003,
    http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5214a2.htm

    National Research Council, "Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review," National Academies Press, 2005 ,
    http://books.nap.edu/books/0309091241/html/index.html.

    Researchers

    John Lott's Website
    http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/

    Dave Kopel Home Page
    http://www.davekopel.com/

    Gary Mauser
    http://www.garymauser.net/

    Gary Kleck
    http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/p/faculty-gary-kleck.php
    http://criminology.fsu.edu/p/faculty-publications.php
    Guns and Self-Defense by Gary Kleck, Ph.D.
    http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/kleck2.html
    Armed resistance to crime: The prevalence and nature of self-defense with a gun - Gary Kleck Marc Gertz
    http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/KleckAndGertz1.htm

    Gun Myths

    In a 22-year study of 800 children from grade 2 to early adulthood, Leonard Eron and Rowell Huesmann found that the best predictor of later aggression was a heavy childhood diet of TV violence -- more so than poverty, grades, a single parent in the home or exposure to real violence.

    The second is income inequality. Although absolute poverty levels do not correlate too significantly with the crime rate, income inequality does (oddly enough). Two separate studies, one from Harvard, the other from Berkeley, compared state crime rates to their income inequality rates, and found that the states with the most inequality had the highest rates of homicide, violent crime and incarceration. This correlation holds internationally as well; Europe has much lower levels of inequality than the U.S., and much lower violent crime rates as well. In the U.S., the rising murder rate has accompanied a rising level of income inequality. In 1968, the Gini index of income inequality was a record low .348; by 1994, it had risen to .426, the highest level since the Great Depression.

    Gun Facts - Your Guide to Debunking Gun Control Myths
    http://www.gunfacts.info/
    Get this if nothing else





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    Great input ,thanks CF
    "Guns are just tools, the way they're used reflects the society they're apart of, if you don't like guns, blame it on society" ~Chris Kyle

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    Default Children and guns

    Children and guns

    Diane Rich
    Bang, Bang! Gun play, and why children need it.
    http://www.gunownerssa.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2414
    When children play with guns
    Superheroes and weapons play
    http://www.richlearningopportunities.co.uk/1pub.htm

    Penny Holland
    http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/late...h-toy-guns.cfm
    We don't play with guns here: War, Weapon and Superhero Play in the Early Years (Debating Play) (Paperback)
    http://www.questiaschool.com/read/115021406?title=Index
    Review
    Playing With Guns Is Good For Boys
    http://www.christianaction.org.za/fi...oodForBoys.htm
    Review
    Why toy guns are back in the classroom
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/.../12/schools.uk

    Who is Penny Holland?
    http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/doe...ny-holland.cfm

    How to turn a pigs ear into a silk purse

    What is the source of GCA's propaganda on child deaths
    Facts about firearm injuries and fatalities among children in Cape Town
    Matthews T 2006 Written for Firearms Control Amendment Bill hearings, 16 August 2006
    http://www.ci.org.za/depts/ci/pubs/p...rmInjuries.pdf

    Impact of Guns on Families Prof Sebastian van As 16 August 2006 Red Cross Children's Home.
    www.saga.org.za/Capfsa%2016Aug06.ppt

    Note the graphic content and assertions made without any proof from mangled statistics and the death of mini-gangsters of the Cape Flats involved with drug and alcohol induced wars over turf. This is typical of gun control research and presents a very good example of propaganda.

    The Proliferation of Firearms in South Africa, 1994-2004 Keegan www.gca.org.za
    Violence in South Africa: critical perspectives www.osf.org.za

    How did GFSA, GCA, Safety and Security, ISS, CHPI MRC and others introduce the the Firearms Control Act
    From fieldwork to facts to firearms control. Research and advocacy towards firearm control legislation in South Africa: A case study
    http://www.ci.org.za/depts/ci/pubs/p...rmsControl.pdf

    What is this children's study worth?

    Nevertheless, a Dr. Van As of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital was quoted in the Cape Argus (17/8/00) as calling for "tougher gun laws." He related various heart rending stories of children wounded and even crippled in gang crossfire. However, upon investigation, I found that only 4 patients a month at Red Cross Hospital were gun shot victims, and almost all of those were from illegal guns in the hands of gangsters. Some of these patients are actually gang members themselves.

    It does not seem logical to disarm the licensed firearm owners when they are not even the problem. Further research revealed that the vast majority of casualties admitted to the children’s hospital were for falls (2 338 cases in the last year), motor vehicle accidents (1 030), burns (532), assault with blunt or sharp instruments (208), and poisoning (452 in patients and 292 out patients). Even dog bites (91) were more numerous than firearm wounds (50).

    Vastly more children die each year in bicycle accidents, car accidents or drownings than from firearms. Children are 1450% more likely to die from a car accident than from a firearm. Should we outlaw all motor vehicles? No, the solution to the horrific carnage on the roads is not to ban motor vehicles, but to improve safety features in vehicles, educate drivers, promote the use of seat belts and severely punish drunken or reckless driving. As with motor vehicles, it would not be right to take away everyone’s freedom because of the criminal activities or carelessness of some.

    Children Injured by Guns

    On another occasion, I was debating two Gun Free South Africa advocates in Cape Town in a public meeting. Dr. Van As, of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, called for tougher gun laws because he was sick and tired of treating children wounded and crippled by gun fire. This was the first time that I had heard this argument, so, in trying to understand the situation, I asked him: “How many of these children are gang members or criminals that were shot by police, or in self defence, by victims of their crimes?” His answer was: “All of them!”

    Reference:
    The War Against the Children, Dr. Peter Hammond,
    http://www.christianaction.org.za/ar...hechildren.htm


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