Showing papers in "Journal on firearms and public policy in 1997"

Using speculation to meet evidence: reply to Alba and Messner (full author's version)

Abstract: In 1995, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology published a sharply critical analysis of Gary Kleck’s bookPoint Blank. Professor Kleck wrote a lengthy response, of which the Journal of Quantitative Criminology published only a small part. The following article is Kleck’s full reply, which has not appeared in print elsewhere. Professor Kleck revised the article in February 1997, for publication in the Journal on Firearms and Public Policy.

What the doctor orders

Abstract: By treating risky behavior like a communicable disease, the public health establishment invites government to meddle in our private lives. While persons familiar with firearms policy issues are familiar with "public health" as a rationale for gun prohibition, the prohibitionist arguments on guns are merely one aspect of a comprehensive "public health" vision of an America in desperate need to be regulated, whether it wants regulation or not. This article is reprinted, with permission, from the January 1996 issue of Reason magazine. Copyright 1995 by the Reason Foundation.

Gun Control: Will it Work?

Abstract: This article is from an address given by the author to the 98th Session of the St. James Literary Society, on October 17, 1995. In the speech, Dr. Buckner summarizes the results of recent research regarding Canadian attitudes towards firearms and firearms control. The research suggests that much of the motivation for gun control may be hostility to the ownership of firearms, rather than a rational expectation that gun misuse will decrease.

The Rodney King syndrome

Abstract: When police officers are unable to control suspects by normal means, the officers may become frustrated, and are at risk of using inappropriately severe levels of force.

Toward an annotated bibliography of the Second Amendment

Abstract: This article summarizes the treatment of the Second Amendment in law journals in the last decade, and offers the author’s analysis of the merits of some of the more important articles.