The CPRC is releasing a new survey entitled: “Economists’ views on guns: Crime, suicides, and right-to-carry concealed handgun laws” (shorter published version is available here). The survey of economists conducted from August 25th to September 12th 2014 found interesting results including:
Other survey questions are available here.
CPRC original research, Survey on gun ownership
The War On Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies
More Guns, Less Crime (University of Chicago Press, 3rd ed, 2010)
Straight Shooting: Firearms, Economics and Public Policy
Denied a Chance: How Gun Control helped a stalker murder my husband
Freedomnomics, see Chapter 4 for a general overview of the economics of crime
Dumbing Down the Courts: How Politics Keeps the Smartest Judges Off the Bench
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Will the left ever wise up???
You’ll notice that for this article, the method of selecting the people to survey were NOT shared. Makes all the difference.
Dear Linda:
If you download the report, you will in fact see that there is an extensive discussion on how the sample was created. All peer-reviewed empirical economics journal papers on firearms over 15 years were compiled. Those authors were then given the survey.
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