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Originally Posted by tecoyah  Fewer Guns mean less GUN related Crime.....nothing more, nothing less. |
Afraid not! The abundance of evidence suggests otherwise. As an example, we have Mocan and Tekin (2006, Guns and Juvenile Crime, Journal of Law & Economics, Vol 49, pp 507-531) which
"[c]ontrolling for a very large number of personal and family characteristics and exploiting the time variation in criminal activity and gun availability, [shows] that gun availability at home is positively related to the propensity to commit crime for juveniles"