The Samurai, The Mountie, and The Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies?

David B. Kopel

A popular argument for gun control is that since countries with tougher gun laws than the United States have less violent crime, gun control reduces violent crime. Former New York prosecutor David Kopel tests this seductive argument and concludes that the lower crime rates in Japan, Canada, and Great Britain reflect their less violent cultures far more than their strict gun laws. Published by Prometheus Books.

David Kopel is an attorney in Denver.

"A superb piece of scholarship, admirable for its integrity and painstaking research. Kopel provides the fresh air of reason in a national debate too often marked by acrimony and prejudice."
-Tom Clancy

1992/470pp./$28.95 cloth ISBN: 0-87975-756-6

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