Are Lax US Gun Laws Spilling Violence into Mexico?

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The question: Do more guns cause more violence? The experiment: We exploit a natural experiment induced by the 2004 expiration of the U.S. federal assault weapons ban to examine how the subsequent exogenous increase in gun supply affected violence in Mexico.

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Are Lax US Gun Laws Spilling Violence into Mexico?

Posted by Aid Watch on May 13 2011. Filed under Aid & Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry