American news haunts the gun debate in Canada
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Mark Twain American news haunts the gun debate…
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Mark Twain American news haunts the gun debate…
In a recent article, Blake Brown maintained that “assault-style” rifles should be restricted, citing police concerns, although he never quite gets around to explaining what…
Rural Canada is “gun country.” But do more guns mean more crime? In 2017 StatsCan reported that both violent crime and property crime rates were…
Gun control proponents assume that clamping down on guns stops murderers. But does gun control work? Over the past few decades, a variety of jurisdictions…
After the recent terrorist attacks in France and England, we see a lot of candles being lit, teddy bears being distributed, and inclusive gestures made…
The short answer is, “No.” Check out a paper by criminologist Don Kates about gun laws and suicide in Europe that was published in the Harvard…
In the 1980s and 1990s governments around the world decided to shut down public mental institutions, releasing the inmates to fend for themselves, even those…
In the debate over gun control, it is often difficult to know which so-called “facts” are real, given the conflicting claims that are rampant. Not…
I recently wrote to Snopes.com asking that they retract “Harvard Flaw Review,” by Kim LaCapria. This review makes numerous errors in discussing a paper that Don…
An extensive study that I published with American criminologist and constitutional lawyer Don Kates confirms the negative results of previous international studies in 2007. Our…