Posting this from another forum

There's no link between guns and crime rates. I know this, you guys all know this, but there's also a 46-page study from Harvard University by criminologists Don B. Kates (LL.B., Yale, 1966) and Gary Mauser (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1970).

46 pages ain't easy to trudge through but here's a download link to the PDF from www.law.harvard.edu:

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/...useronline.pdf