[In 2007 the Harvard Journal on Law and Policy published a lengthy article I co-authored with a Canadian criminologist, Gary Mauser. Its topic was the common misconception (mantra) that the more firearms in a society the greater its murder rates. The following is the text of an historical discussion in the article. The very extensive footnotes have been deleted because I am too technologically unsophisticated to transmit...

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