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Introduction | |
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Gun Accidents versus Self-Defense | |
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The Character of Gun Owners | |
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The Myth That Ordinary People Murder | |
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The Threat of Long Gun Substitution | |
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The Second Amendment Constitutional Right to Arms | |
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Notes | |
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Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence, or Pandemic of Propaganda? | |
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The Public Health Agenda | |
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The Verdict of Criminological Scholarship | |
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Fear and Loathing as Social Science | |
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A Nosology of Health Sage Error | |
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The Valor of Ignorance | |
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Issues, Data and References "Missing in Action" | |
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Unnatural Selection | |
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"Sagecraft" and Scholarship | |
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International Disinformation | |
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Gun Availability, Social Harms and Fraudulent Nondisclosure | |
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Shibboleth Diverts Attention from Actual Causes | |
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A Critique of Overt Mendacity | |
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The Myth That Murderers Are Ordinary Gun Owners | |
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"Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home" | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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"Poisoning the Well" for Gun Control | |
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A Tripartite Debate | |
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Poisoning the Well for Gun Control | |
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The "Gun Control Paradox" | |
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Gun Control Plebiscites | |
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On the Morality of Personal Self-Defense | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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Absolutist Politics in a Moderate Package: Prohibitionist Intentions of the Gun Control Movement | |
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The Issue: Moderate Overt Agendas vs. Covert Prohibitionist Goals | |
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Why Do Prohibitionist Intentions Matter? | |
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Evidence of Prohibitionist Intent of the Leaders of the Gun Control Movement | |
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Past Political Efforts of Advocacy Groups | |
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Recent Precedents of Gun Prohibition in Other Nations | |
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"Nondenial Denials" of Prohibitionist Intentions | |
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Support for Gun Bans Among Moderate Control Supporters in the General Population | |
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Public Statements Made by Leaders and Prominent Supporters of the Gun Control Lobby | |
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The Premises and Logic of Arguments for Moderate Controls | |
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The Advocacy of Licensing and Registration in Addition to Background Checks | |
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Conclusions | |
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Notes | |
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Modes of News Media Distortion of Gun Issues | |
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Sins of Omission--Exclusion Bias | |
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A Speculation About How Exclusion Bias Works | |
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Unbalanced Skepticism Applied to Pro and Con Information | |
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Amount of "Play"--Extent and Prominence of Coverage | |
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Editorial Stances and Other Newspaper Policies | |
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Other Forms of Bias | |
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A Case Study--A CBS Television Documentary | |
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Newsweek and the Invention of a Machine Guns Crisis | |
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The Bernhard Goetz Case | |
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Is It Bias or Just Random Sloppiness? | |
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Discussion and Conclusions | |
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Notes | |
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The Frequency of Defensive Gun Use: Evidence and Disinformation | |
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Early Surveys with Defensive Gun Use Questions | |
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The National Self-Defense Survey | |
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NSDS Results | |
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Later Surveys | |
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Explaining the Deviant NCVS Results | |
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Early-Intervention DGUs | |
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DGU in Crimes with No Harm to the Victim | |
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Telescoping as a Source of Overestimation in the DGU Surveys | |
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The Scholarly Response to Large DGU Estimates | |
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Fallacious Reductio and Absurdum Reasoning | |
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The Meaning of Internal Inconsistencies in DGU Reports | |
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Direct Evidence on the Relative Balance of False Positives and False Negatives | |
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Circular Reasoning in Numerical Exercises on the Sensitivity of DGU Estimates to False Positives | |
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One-sided Consideration of Errors in DGU Estimation | |
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The Rare-DGU Theory: The Creation Science of Criminology | |
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Discouraging the Development of Better DGU Estimates | |
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The Relative Frequency of Defensive and Offensive Uses of Guns | |
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Conclusions | |
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Policy Implications of Large DGU Estimates | |
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Adjusting Earlier Estimates of DGU | |
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Notes | |
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The Nature and Effectiveness of Owning, Carrying, and Using Guns for Self-Protection | |
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Issues of Armed Resistance to Criminals | |
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The Effectiveness and Risks of Victim Resistance with Guns | |
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Multivariate Analysis of Robbery and Armed Resistance | |
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Multivariate Analysis of Rape and Armed Resistance | |
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The Police Chief's Fallacy | |
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The Myth of Criminals Taking Guns from Gun-wielding Victims | |
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Self-Defense Killings and Woundings of Criminals | |
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Keeping Loaded Guns in the Home | |
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Carrying Guns for Protection | |
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Psychological Effects of Keeping Guns for Protection | |
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The Nonsense Ratio | |
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The Nature of Defensive Gun Use | |
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Who Is Involved in Defensive Gun Use? | |
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Deterrence of Crime Due to Fear of Gun-Armed Victims | |
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Guns and the Displacement of Burglars from Occupied Homes | |
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Conclusions | |
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Implications for Crime Control Policy | |
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Notes | |
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The Second Amendment: A Right to Personal Self-Protection | |
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Self-Protection as Benefit to the Whole Community | |
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Political Functions of the Right to Arms | |
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The Armed Freeholder Ideal of Virtuous Citizenship | |
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The Efficacy of Arms and Self-Defense | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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Subject Index | |
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Name Index | |