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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 | |