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Title: Guns and Violence: The English Experience by Joyce Lee Malcolm ISBN: 0-674-00753-0 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The other shoe drops
Comment: As some one who has lived in NYC for 12 years, and just returned from a year in England, I was astonished by how much more violent crime exists in that seemingly placid country. As Professor Joyce Malcom describes, robbery, burglary, assault and motor vehical theft in England have risen far higer (per 1000 population) than in the United States since the mid 1990s. This in spite of the fact that to minimize this shocking increase in violent crime, the British government has re-ordered the way crime statistics are collected. Car thefts are no longer investigated by Police; you call them to report a theft; they give you a report number for the insurance company. (A man called the police to report he was witnessing his car being stolen, and if they hurried over, they could catch the theft. They were "too busy.")
What is most fascinating about Prof. Malcolm's book is what you can read between the lines. The wilful blindness of anti-gun people has become so overwhelming, that it induces the most bizarre behavior in these otherwise intelligent people. As she amply demonstrates, it is just not possible to find ANY statistics put out by the anti-gunners that are not flawed, misleading, or just plain false. This strange belief has become an unquestioned religion to many, and opposition is not simply a different opinion, it is heresey. Malcom relates how in 1966 a gun shot 3 policemen with a handgun, causing the British Home Secretary Jenkins slap on the public a new ban on shotguns!! (Handguns were already illeagal.)
The book is rather long detailing the history of gun use in Great Britain, but the second half paints a surprising picture of the rapid decline of public safety in almost perfect sync with a draconian reversal of previously liberal gun laws. Malcom makes an interesting effort to compare US crime statisitics with those of England, but, given our culture where more than half the population own guns--this is often a stretch. Nevertheless, this book will certainly be the other shoe to the rancorous gun debate going on int he US, and should do much to buttress the fact that more guns do seem to result in less crime.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not Very Factual
Comment: After the gun ban in England the UK police changed their system for recording crime. This made it falsely appear that the crime rate had gone up according to statistics based on police reports. The British Crime Survey, another measure of crime in the UK, was unaffected by these changes in recording crime. According to the British Crime Survey, crime in Britain has actually gone down quite a bit since the gun ban. This is not to say that the gun ban caused the decrease in crime. A decrease in crime can be caused by other factors. However, it does reveal that the author failed to sufficiently research the topic.
Rating: 4
Summary: Debunking gun control
Comment: This book was recommended to me by Chris Bird, author of The Concealed Handgun Manual. Malcolm's contribution is a highly readable history of violence in Great Britain and it's nearly inverse association with firearm availability. It is worth the read just for the history and fascinating details like what generated the cliche "read the Riot Act" and why English police have historically not carried firearms. This book nicely complements the works of John Lott, Jr in demonstrating why gun control makes great rhetoric and political demagoguery but lousy, counterproductive policy. I wish it were available in electronic format so I could load it into my pocket PC for immediate availability when I have occasion to debate liberals and their unfortunate, misguided victims.
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Title: The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong by John R., Jr. Lott ISBN: 0895261146 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right by Joyce Lee Malcolm ISBN: 0674893077 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws by John R. Lott Jr. ISBN: 0226493644 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Seven Myths of Gun Control: Reclaiming the Truth About Guns, Crime, and the Second Amendment by RICHARD POE ISBN: 0761525580 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control by Gary Kleck, Don B. Kates ISBN: 1573928836 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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