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CIAO DATE: 07/05

Add Gun Control to Litany of Misbegotten Government Plans

On the Issue
July 2004

John R. Lott Jr. and Eli Lehrer

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Abstract

Despite promises to the contrary by gun-control advocates, many nations have found that increasing restrictions on guns—and even banning them outright—actually increases the number of violent crimes committed.

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