On its initial publication in 1998, John R. Lott’s More Guns, Less Criminal offense drew both lavish praise and warmed criticism. Greater than a 10 years later, it continues to play a key part in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws and regulations: despite all of the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever had the opportunity to refute Lott’s basic, startling conclusion that more weapons mean less criminal offense. Relying on one of the most rigorously extensive data analysis ever carried out on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws and regulations, the book straight challenges common perceptions about the partnership of guns, crime, and violence. For this third release, Lott pulls on yet another a decade of data-including provocative evaluation of the effects of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C-that brings the book fully current and additional bolsters its central contention.