TITLE

Gun control advocates lie to further their twisted ideals

AUTHOR(S)
Sowell, Thomas
PUB. DATE
June 2000
SOURCE
Enterprise/Salt Lake City;06/05/2000, Vol. 29 Issue 49, p30
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Comments on the relationship between gun control and the incidence of violent crimes in the United States. Assessment of the net effect of gun control; Pitfalls in gun control advocates' theories; Assumptions of gun control.
ACCESSION #
3238488

Tags: GUN control;  VIOLENT crimes

 

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