2aguy
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here we have a look at what researchers...who have conducted peer reviewed research on the topic of guns....think about the different aspects of the gun debate...
CPRC at Investors Business Daily: "Even Liberal Academics Are Turning Pro-Gun Ownership" - Crime Prevention Research Center
To find out, Professor Gary Mauser of Canada’s Simon Fraser University and I teamed up to survey researchers who had published gun-related, peer-reviewed empirical research. We limited our search to those who had published in criminology and economics journals over the last 15 years.
We surveyed 130 researchers and ended up with 74 responses — a 57% response rate. Thirty-nine of the respondents had published in criminology journals. The remaining 35 had published in economics journals.
These criminologists and economists agree with the American people by an overwhelming margin.
Economists and criminologists tend to approach their research in very different ways. Economists believe in deterrence: As something becomes more costly, people do less of it. Deterrence does not figure prominently in the thinking of most criminologists. Criminologists usually don’t study the importance of police in deterring crime.
Economists and criminologists differ in other ways. Taking the average of surveys on academic economists’ political views, we find that Democrats outnumber Republicans by almost 3 to 1.
In sociology, of which criminology is a subfield, there are about 37 Democrat faculty members for every Republican. Many sociology departments may not have even a single Republican.
Although they both lean Democrat, economists and criminologists both find strong evidence that guns are used more for self-defense than for committing crimes.
They also find that gun-free zones attract criminals, that guns in the home do not increase the risk of suicide, that concealed handgun permit holders are much more law-abiding than the typical American and that concealed carry leads to lower murder rates.
On every question but the one on whether a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide, those surveyed took the pro-gun position by a margin of approximately 30 percentage points. Even on the issue of suicide, the academics believed by a 20-point margin that increased gun ownership would not lead to more suicides.
CPRC at Investors Business Daily: "Even Liberal Academics Are Turning Pro-Gun Ownership" - Crime Prevention Research Center
To find out, Professor Gary Mauser of Canada’s Simon Fraser University and I teamed up to survey researchers who had published gun-related, peer-reviewed empirical research. We limited our search to those who had published in criminology and economics journals over the last 15 years.
We surveyed 130 researchers and ended up with 74 responses — a 57% response rate. Thirty-nine of the respondents had published in criminology journals. The remaining 35 had published in economics journals.
These criminologists and economists agree with the American people by an overwhelming margin.
Economists and criminologists tend to approach their research in very different ways. Economists believe in deterrence: As something becomes more costly, people do less of it. Deterrence does not figure prominently in the thinking of most criminologists. Criminologists usually don’t study the importance of police in deterring crime.
Economists and criminologists differ in other ways. Taking the average of surveys on academic economists’ political views, we find that Democrats outnumber Republicans by almost 3 to 1.
In sociology, of which criminology is a subfield, there are about 37 Democrat faculty members for every Republican. Many sociology departments may not have even a single Republican.
Although they both lean Democrat, economists and criminologists both find strong evidence that guns are used more for self-defense than for committing crimes.
They also find that gun-free zones attract criminals, that guns in the home do not increase the risk of suicide, that concealed handgun permit holders are much more law-abiding than the typical American and that concealed carry leads to lower murder rates.
On every question but the one on whether a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide, those surveyed took the pro-gun position by a margin of approximately 30 percentage points. Even on the issue of suicide, the academics believed by a 20-point margin that increased gun ownership would not lead to more suicides.
