Can Owning a Gun Really Triple the Owner's Chances of being Murdered?: The Anatomy of an Implausible Causal Mechanism

Homicide Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 64-77

  Kleck, Gary ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84993661098     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767901005001005     Document Type: Article

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