TY - JOUR PY - 2003// TI - The final bullet in the body of the more guns, less crime hypothesis JO - Criminology and public policy A1 - Donohue, John J. SP - 397 EP - 410 VL - 2 IS - 3 N2 - In 1997, John Lott and David Mustard launched what has become one of the most remarkable tales in the history of public policy evaluation when they announced that laws permitting citizens to carry a concealed handguns, so cold right to carry laws, caused crying to fall. Hailed as heroes by the National Rifle Association and his supporters, while derided as scoundrels by the staunchest critics, locked and mustard precipitated a scholarly and political odyssey that can teach us much about the techniques and limitations of sophisticated empirical research and the diversion norms of the scholarly and political realms....

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