TITLE

Gun control leads to more crime, not less

AUTHOR(S)

Scott, Patrick

PUB. DATE

March 1994

SOURCE

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;3/14/94, Vol. 21 Issue 13, p25

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Argues that the notion that Canada can cut down on crime by cutting down on the number of guns is not rooted in fact. Research of Gary Kleck (Florida State University) on defensive use of guns by private citizens; Possibility the answer to the high number of house burglaries in both Canada and Great Britain is more guns for homeowners; Canadian gun control an official deceit; How gun control plays into the anti-gun crowd's liberal-left sensibilities.

ACCESSION #

9403287525

Tags: GUN control

 

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