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Reason
November 2002
Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.   |
Reason
May 2005
Kohn et al. |
Straight Shooting on Gun Control A debate about gun control from four viewpoints. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
James V. DeLong |
The Great Gun Fight More guns mean less crime. Or they don't. Which is it? Two respected authors, John R. Lott Jr. and Robert Ehrlich debate... |
ifeminists
May 5, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
Gun-Proof Your Children The basic question is whether private gun ownership is a Constitutional and individual right, or a reckless practice that endangers society and children. |
Reason
March 2001
Jib Fowles |
Missing Link The bum rap against TV violence... |
Reason
January 2009
Brian Doherty |
Baloney Ballistics Gun databases fail. Devoting so much record keeping to every gun sold guarantees wasted effort, since less than 1 percent of all guns sold will ever be used in a crime. |
BusinessWeek
January 13, 2011
Paul M. Barrett |
Glock: America's Gun How Austria's Glock became the weapon of choice for U.S. cops, Second Amendment enthusiasts, and mass killers like the alleged Tucson gunman Jared Loughner. |
Reason
December 2003
Jacob Sullum |
Carry On The number of states that allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms hit 36 in September, up from 10 in 1986. The three-dozen mark was reached after Missouri's legislature voted to override Gov. Bob Holden's veto of a right-to-carry bill. |
Reason
June 2005
Robert VerBruggen |
Self-Defense vs. Municipal Gun Bans When Hale DeMar shot an intruder in his house, he may well have saved his children's lives. So why was he charged with a crime? |
ifeminists
November 16, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Girls, Get Your Guns Organizations dedicated to female gun ownership are spreading from well-established organizations like Second Amendment Sisters and Women and Guns to relatively new ones like Mother's Arms, which urges mothers to protect their children with armed force if necessary. |
Reason
July 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Drug Control Begets Gun Control The violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms. |
| AskMen.com |
Crime Down In 2008: FBI Violent crime, property crime, murder and manslaughter all dropped in 2008. But there were some increases, too. |
Salon.com
May 15, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Playing both sides President Bush unveils a new gun program carefully crafted to appease both the NRA and gun control advocates... |
ifeminists
May 13, 2003
Tiffany Hyatt |
Why I Picked Up a Gun One woman was raped and beaten by men who actually are commissioned police officers. I was that woman. |
Reason
December 2008
Brian Doherty |
Four Decades of Defending Self-Defense Since its inception in 1968 the defense of Americans' Second Amendment rights has been a staple of reason. Take a look back at how they have covered this issue through the years. |
Searcher
September 2003
Kenneth Fink |
Criminology Web Sites: An Annotated "Webliography" This list may serve as an introduction to the many Web sites devoted to both the prosaic and exotic in the field of criminology. |
Salon.com
June 7, 2000
Camille Paglia |
The gun letters The Million Moms are "cowardettes who don't know the difference between a Glock and a glockenspiel." |
Reason
February 2005
Eric Dzinski |
Humanizing Gun Nuts In Shooters: Myths and Realities of America's Gun Cultures, anthropologist Abigail A. Kohn shoots down stereotypes about gun enthusiasts. |
Reason
March 2007
Radley Balko |
Prisoner's Dilemma After a nearly two-decade decline, violent crime in the U.S. has begun to inch upward again. So what's the solution? It probably isn't the "more laws, more prisons" approach that lawmakers typically adopt when crime goes up. |
ifeminists
March 3, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
Do Gun Control Activists Pad Gun Death Statistics? Million Mom March hopes to create a groundswell of public outrage against guns. But, MMM should reconsider the inflation and skewing of statistics on dead children. As a strategy, it looks cruel and heartless and could easily backfire. |
Scientific American
February 2009
Michael Moyer |
Will the Recession Spark a Crime Wave? The bad economy doesn't necessarily mean we're headed for armageddon, argue some researchers. But maybe they've been looking at the wrong data |
Reason
February 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Speak Softly and Carry a Concealed Handgun Would a nicer NRA be more effective? |
Reason
October 2001
Rhys Southan |
DNA on Demand Scotland's Strathclyde Police don't blink twice when it comes to slighting privacy for crime detection. In March, Scotland's largest police department announced that officers would take DNA samples from everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the crime... |
Reason
June 2000
Kenneth Smith |
Loaded Coverage How the news media miss the mark on the gun issue. |
ifeminists
February 25, 2007
Stephen Baskerville |
Statistics from the Ministry of Truth The DOJ's recently declared that domestic violence has been cut in half over ten years. Men's advocates reply that the figures do not include violence against male victims. But larger issues are involved, like the manipulation of information (and us) by the government. |
Salon.com
September 7, 2000
David Bowman |
The reasonable gun nut Denounced by the NRA, a historian talks about the myth of early American gun ownership and his own fascination with firearms. |
Reason
April 2009
Brian Doherty |
Guns in Parks? Thanks to a regulatory change by the outgoing Bush administration, it is legal to carry concealed and loaded weapons in national parks and wildlife refuges, as long as it's permitted in the state. |
ifeminists
May 6, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Women With Guns Fight Back Women need to defend themselves, especially single women or those with husbands overseas. And the media has a responsibility to discuss honestly the issue of gun ownership. |
ifeminists
August 19, 2003
Resa LaRu Kirkland |
We've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby I think I missed a memo in my journey through womanhood. I mean, at what point did being female become synonymous with being anti-gun? |
Salon.com
November 26, 2002
Charles Taylor |
Kiss Miss Marple goodbye Scottish mystery author Val McDermid talks about the tough reality of life in today's Britain and why crime writers, not literary novelists, are the ones facing up to it. |
Chemistry World
March 7, 2013
Paul Illing |
Is lead linked to violence? Recent articles are part of a spate of media interest in claims that a relationship exists between tetraethyl lead in petrol and violent crime. But is it true? |
ifeminists
December 30, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Criminals Owe Debt to Victims, Not Society I believe both civil and criminal court systems should aim at compensating the victim. What would a criminal system organized around restitution look like? |
ifeminists
June 24, 2003
George Rolph |
Reassembling the Truth While the Observer (UK) newspaper should be applauded for having the courage to publish a piece on husband abuse, they score no points for cutting edge and truthful journalism. I want to dismantle this article and report the real facts behind this facile piece. |
CRM
October 2010
Koa Beck |
To Predict and Serve Predictive analytics helps a police department make better use of limited resources. |
Reason
November 2008
Jacob Sullum |
Back to Court The D.C. Council unanimously approves a law that makes armed self-defense in the home impractical and bans the most popular weapons used for that purpose. One Washingtonian has filed a federal lawsuit fighting it. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Sweet & Cass |
How to Fight Crime in Real Time New York City's Real Time Crime Center enables officers to extract information from integrated databases and send it immediately to investigators in the field. Displays are tailored to the situation at hand. |
Reason
September 2005 |
Letters Straight Shooting on Gun Control... Thomas Szasz Takes on His Critics... Correction... etc. |
InternetNews
September 22, 2009 |
Canada Uses IBM BI Software to Fight Crime Edmonton police are the latest to use business intelligence apps to identify crime hot spots. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 5, 2011
Maggie Starvish |
How 'Political Voice' Empowers the Powerless An increase in female political representation seems to be giving female crime victims in India a voice in the criminal justice system, according to new research by Harvard Business School professor Lakshmi Iyer and colleagues. |
Reason
December 2007
Radley Balko |
Ganging Up Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff recently introduced legislation to combat gang violence. But a new study by the Justice Policy Institute concludes most efforts aren't working. |
Popular Mechanics
February 18, 2010
Tyghe Trimble |
Can Sophisticated Mathematical Models Help Police Fight Crime? Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of California shows how mathematical modeling may soon lead to truly predictive police work. |
ifeminists
April 14, 2009
Carey Roberts |
Abuse Excuse: How Liberalism Keeps Women in their Place Liberals have become the unapologetic predators of women, gleefully playing on their fears and psychological vulnerabilities, all in the name of curbing domestic violence. |
Reason
February 2005
Town & O'Toole |
Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods How "New Urbanist" planners sacrifice safety in the name of "openness" and "accessibility." |
ifeminists
April 15, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
War May Redefine Gun Control Despite the high emotions that surround war --- or perhaps because of them --- people are focusing again on "normal" life. But what is normal has shifted in ways both obvious and subtle. Consider how war has affected just one issue: the debate over gun control. |
Reason
December 2008
Brian Doherty |
How the Second Amendment Was Restored The inside story of how a gang of libertarian lawyers made constitutional history, declaring by a 5-4 decision that yes, the Second Amendment does secure an individual right to keep and bear arms. |
Reason
November 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Pride and Prejudice The false choice between patriotism and skepticism: Americans who are prepared to acknowledge America's virtues and its crimes will be comfortable neither with Bill Bennett's uncomplicated love-it-or-leave-it attitude nor with Noam Chomsky's reflexive condemnations of the U.S. |
Reason
April 2004
Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
Reason
May 2002
Charles Oliver |
Brickbats Don't tell the embassy... The European Union has banned the live performance of Beethoven and Mozart -- almost... Doctors at Norway's national prison have prescribed Viagra to at least two prisoners serving time for sex crimes, with unfortunate results... etc. |
ifeminists
July 6, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Domestic Violence Victims Need Self-Defense Every American anti-domestic violence advocate should advise victims -- male or female -- to learn self-defense. They should lobby for the repeal of any law or policy that hinders responsible gun ownership. |
Reason
June 2000 |
A Smith & Wesson FAQ So they pressured Smith & Wesson into accepting gun control in the form of a lawsuit settlement. We should be glad, right? |
