Consider who the authors are

5 myths of Gun Control?

1. Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Since 33% of the Homicides are not firearms related, we seem pretty proficient at killing each other, and since it is estimated that around 10-11% of gun homicides are legal intervention, of the remaining 90% if they didn't have a gun, would they have used a club or something else?

2. Gun laws affect only law-abiding citizens.

Well laws in general only affect law abiding persons, abiding by the law is a choice, weather its choosing to exceed the speed limit, DUI, or acquiring a gun for illegal purposes.

3. When more households have guns for self-defense, crime goes down.

So with an estimated 14,000,000 guns sold last year, why did the FBI UCR show a 5.5% decrease in crime? (one of the few places showing increases was Chicago?, although they are not part of the UCR)

4. In high-crime urban neighborhoods, guns are as easy to get as fast food.

From the Wright Rossi research, if criminals want guns they can get them, may not be Burger King, but they can get them

5. Repealing Chicago's handgun ban will dramatically increase gun crimes.

So in all the cities and states that do not have gun bans and even have shall issue CCW, why are we not seeing dramatic increases in gun crime? Is Chicago all that different from the rest of the country?

Cook & Ludwig have long been anti gun, and even when thier own research indicated that there were likely twice as many "defensive gun uses" than the Gary Kleck study of 2.5 million a year, they did a research paper to discredit their own study, since they didn't like the result. Please do not to confuse them with facts.