Second Amendment, Gun Control Myths

[Andrew]

Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime (Video) (4min) (ABC News)
Bullshit - Gun Control (Video) (28min) (Penn & Teller)
- Penn & Teller on the 2nd Amendment (Video) (1min) (Penn & Teller)
More Guns, Less Crime (Video) (44min) (John Stossel)
5 Facts About Guns, Schools, & Violence (Video) (3min) (Reason)

Articles:
Myths About Gun Control (John Stossel, October 19, 2005)
Gun Control Isn't Crime Control (John Stossel, April 26, 2007)
Why Economists Tend to Oppose Gun Control Laws (Scott A. Kjar, Ph.D. Economics, May 2, 2007)
Guns Don't Kill Kids, Irresponsible Adults With Guns Do (John Lott, October 10, 2007)
Control Criminals Not Guns (Walter Williams, Ph.D. Economics, May 21, 2008)
Gun-Free Zones Are Not Safe (John Lott, April 21, 2008)
Think Tough Gun Laws Keep Europeans Safe? Think Again... (John Lott, June 10, 2010)
Gun Control and Mass Murders (John Lott, June 11, 2010)
In Debate Over Gun-Carry Laws, Critics Are Quick to Shoot Down the Facts (John Lott, June 11, 2010)
New gun laws will do nothing to stop mass shooting attacks (John Lott, July 30, 2012)
Did Colorado shooter single out Cinemark theater because it banned guns? (John Lott, September 10, 2012)
The truth about Costas, Belcher and guns (John Lott, December 3, 2012)
Gun Crime Soars in England by 35% Where Guns Are Banned (Human Events, December 15, 2012)
Child Safety and State Failure (Ninos P. Malek, Ph.D. Economics, December 17, 2012)
Gun-Control Ignorance (Thomas Sowell, Ph.D. Economics, December 18, 2012)

PDFs
Trust the People: The Case against Gun Control (PDF) (The Cato Institute, July 11, 1988)
Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry a Handgun (PDF) (The Cato Institute, October 22, 1997)
Pistol Whipped Baseless Lawsuits, Foolish Laws (PDF) (The Cato Institute, May 9, 2001)
Arm the Chicks (PDF) (Penn Jillette, Fall 2001)

Books:
1996 - To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right (Joyce Lee Malcolm)
2000 - The Second Amendment (David Barton)
2002 - Guns and Violence: The English Experience (Joyce Lee Malcolm)
2002 - Guns Save Lives: True Stories of Americans Defending Their Lives With Firearms (Robert A. Waters)
2003 - The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong (John Lott)
2003 - The Seven Myths of Gun Control: Reclaiming the Truth About Guns, Crime, and the Second Amendment (Richard Poe)
2006 - Straight Shooting: Firearms, Economics and Public Policy (John Lott)
2007 - America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age (Alan Gottlieb; Dave Workman)
2008 - The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms (Stephen P. Halbrook)
2008 - These Dogs Don't Hunt: The Democrats' War on Guns (Alan Gottlieb; Dave Workman)
2009 - Assault on Weapons: The Campaign to Eliminate Your Guns (Alan Gottlieb; Dave Workman)
2009 - Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment (Brian Doherty)
2010 - More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Third Edition (John Lott)
2011 - Shooting Blanks: Facts Don't Matter to the Gun Ban Crowd (Alan Gottlieb; Dave Workman)
2011 - Shooting the Bull (Guy Smith)
2012 - Gun Facts 6.1 (Guy Smith)

Papers:
Does Gun Control Reduce Crime or Does Crime Increase Gun Control? (PDF)
(The Cato Journal, Volume 26 Number 1, pp. 103-124, 2006)
- John C. Moorhouse, Brent Wanner

Studies:
Gun shows do not increase homicides or suicides (University of Michigan, October 1, 2008)
Report: In Virginia, more guns, less crime (Virginia Commonwealth University, November 26, 2012)
Schools Safer Than 1990s as Educators Anticipate Killers (Bloomberg, December 17, 2012)

England:
Gun Control Myths: The Case of England (Thomas Sowell, Ph.D. Economics, November 26, 2002)

Switzerland:
Disarming the Swiss (John R. Lott, Jr., September 27, 2001)
Switzerland and the gun (BBC, September 27, 2001)

Rebuttal to "Mythbusting: Israel and Switzerland are not gun-toting utopias" - Mark To Myth


"Assault" Weapons:
The Truth About Semi-Auto Firearms (Video) (11min)
On the range: Understanding differences in firearms (Video) (7min) (Fox News)
Chuck Woolery on Assault Weapons (Video) (6min)

Ar-15:
The AR-15: The gun liberals love to hate (Human Events, January 2, 2013)
Assault weapon provides security, owner testifies (The Baltimore Sun, February 11, 1992)
Police say man acted in self defense when he gunned down a man who forced his way into his apartment (WVLT-TV, April 20 , 2012)
15 year old boy uses AR-15 to defend himself and his 12 year old sister against home invaders (Breitbart, January 9, 2013)
15 Year Old Uses Dad's AR-15 to defend his home from burglars (Video) (2min) (KHOU-TV, January 9, 2013)
AR-15-Wielding Security Guard Chases Off Robbers (National Review Online, February 19, 2013)


High Capacity Magazines:
High-Capacity-Magazine Bans (National Review Online, December 19, 2012)
VA Tech Review Panel: High Capacity Magazine Ban Would Not Have Stopped 2007 Shooting (Breitbart, December 30, 2012)

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New Jersey:
New Jersey Gun Laws (NRA)
The Never-ending Saga of Firearms Ownership in New Jersey (Video) (10min)

New Jersey Second Amendment Society
New Jersey Gun Forums