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    Hey everyone I thought this would be a good opportunity to ask for a little help on the issue of gun control. I am writing a policy issue paper in one of my graduate classes and I am pro gun. What I am looking to do is to explain the problems which have led up to gun control becoming a hot legislative issue currently. I will also need to list the stakeholders of gun control and some alternatives to gun control. Does anyone know of any cites I can use for research? I've come across http://www.guncite.com and it's a great start. Any advice or info would be much appreciated!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 22Girlie View Post
    Hey everyone I thought this would be a good opportunity to ask for a little help on the issue of gun control. I am writing a policy issue paper in one of my graduate classes and I am pro gun. What I am looking to do is to explain the problems which have led up to gun control becoming a hot legislative issue currently. I will also need to list the stakeholders of gun control and some alternatives to gun control. Does anyone know of any cites I can use for research? I've come across http://www.guncite.com and it's a great start. Any advice or info would be much appreciated!!!
    One place to look is the briefs for DC v. Heller, available on this site: www.gurapossessky.com/news/parker/pleadings.html
    These briefs address both Constitutional interpretation and empirical evidence.

    the problems which have led up to gun control becoming a hot legislative issue
    Politicians blaming inanimate objects and passing "feel-good" laws so that they appear to be addressing crime problems. And voters being fooled by these politicians into thinking that gun restrictions will actually have a noticible impact on violent crime.

    some alternatives to gun control
    Cracking down on violent criminal gangs. Also addressing the root social problems that lead to violent crime.

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    If you're concerned mostly about the "is it good policy to have less restrictive gun laws" question, John Lott's book More Guns, Less Crime is a good place to start. He also wrote several papers, one of which with David B. Mustard is located here: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~mustard/ccw.pdf

    David Mustard also wrote a paper by himself on the impact of gun laws on police deaths: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~mustard/police.pdf

    (One note of caution about John Lott, he was caught, rather ridiculously, using a "sock puppet" on an internet forum to discuss his writings.
    http://www.reason.com/news/show/28771.html Doesn't take away from his statistical work, but I always mention it in the interests of full disclosure.)


    Also worth reading as a counterpoint is the Ayres & Donohue article disputing Lott's conclusions: http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayers/A...ue_article.pdf

    Gary Kleck, a Florida State criminologist, has written extensively on the issue. See his faculty page for a list of publications: http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/p/faculty-gary-kleck.php


    If you're talking about the Constitutionality of gun control, I would definitely look at Akhil Reed Amar's writings on the subject, especially his book The Bill of Rights. In addition to Amar, here has been a lot of writing on the subject by Constitutional law scholars on the subject in the past ten years, including:

    Eugene Volokh
    Laurence Tribe
    Sanford Levison ("The Embarrassing Second Amendment")

    Any comprehensive paper would have to answer typical anti-gun arguments. Definitely check the usual suspects.

    I haven't looked at it in much detail, but this website appears to have a very thorough list of sources on a variety of gun-related issues:

    http://gunfacts.info/

    Good luck.

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    Default Re: Pro-Gun Policy Paper

    Quote Originally Posted by awkx View Post
    One place to look is the briefs for DC v. Heller, available on this site: www.gurapossessky.com/news/parker/pleadings.html
    These briefs address both Constitutional interpretation and empirical evidence.

    Politicians blaming inanimate objects and passing "feel-good" laws so that they appear to be addressing crime problems. And voters being fooled by these politicians into thinking that gun restrictions will actually have a noticible impact on violent crime.

    Cracking down on violent criminal gangs. Also addressing the root social problems that lead to violent crime.

    Everyone thank you so much for your replies to my thread. I've got a lot of information to research, information that I wouldn't have been able to find on my own so thank you all!


    22girlie

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    Default Re: Pro-Gun Policy Paper

    i would also recommend researching the "international crime victims surveys". the consistently show that the violent crime rates in englad and australia (where guns are essentially banned) are significantly higher than violent crime rates in the US.

    here are a couple links to get you started:

    http://www.unicri.it/wwd/analysis/ic...000i/index.htm

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...Victims+Survey

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