New survey on the views of academic economists who research guns

Mar 29, 2015 | Featured

The CPRC is releasing a new survey entitled: “Economists’ views on guns: Crime, suicides, and right-to-carry concealed handgun laws.” The survey of economists conducted from August 25th to September 12th 2014 found interesting results including:

Question 1

The rest of the survey is available here.

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