John R. Lott, Jr.
School of Law, University of Chicago

  with comments by

Jenn Ludwig
Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University

Michael Block
Professor of Law and Economics, University of Arizona
Former Commissioner, U.S. Sentencing Commission

31 States now have laws allowing individuals to carry concealed handguns. In the most careful scientific study of such laws yet done, which will be published in the Journal of Law and Economics in January, John Lott finds that concealed-carry laws deter violent crimes and produce no increase in accidental deaths. In an advance look at his findings, he argued at this forum that if more states had such laws, thousands of murders could be prevented.

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