TITLE

Cherrypicking of gun control `facts' creates phony appearances

AUTHOR(S)
Sowell, Thomas
PUB. DATE
May 2000
SOURCE
Enterprise/Salt Lake City;05/22/2000, Vol. 29 Issue 47, p30
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Disputes arguments against gun control. Gun control and crime rates; Emotional argument for gun control; Alleged political agendas of gun control movements; Book `More Guns, Less Crime,' by John Lott.
ACCESSION #
3179907

Tags: GUN control;  FIREARMS & crime;  MORE Guns, Less Crime (Book)

 

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