Posted by David Kopel: Current gun laws may be working very well: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_05_08-2005_05_14.shtml#1115664712
That's the suggestion of [1]Posse Incitatus, which notes the result of a state-federal-local dragnet which rounded up over 10,000 fugitives. Only two percent of these fugitives had guns. P.I. suggests that the data show that gun gun control laws work so well that criminals are much less likely to own guns than is the general public. That's a good point, regarding fugitives who were arrested in their homes, presuming that many arrests included the lawfully-allowed "protective sweep" by police officers to check the vicinity for weapons. As for the arrests that took place in public areas, a gun carrying rate of two percent might not be far different from the rates of lawful carrying by licensed citizens. References 1. http://posseincitatus.typepad.com/posse_incitatus/2005/05/disarmed_crimin.html _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://highsorcery.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
