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Letters |15 November 1995

Preventing Firearm Violence

T. Steven Roosevelt, MD, PhD

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TO THE EDITOR:
I believe that the College's recent recommendation on gun ownership [1] is fundamentally flawed. The recommendation is contrary to long-standing criminologic experience, violates the fundamental rights enjoyed by a free people, and, if enacted as law, might increase firearm-related deaths.
Cesare Beccaria [2], the founder of scientific criminology, understood the folly of gun control laws in practical terms: False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience.… The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are of such a nature. They disarm those only who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.… Such laws make things much worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
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Roosevelt TS. Preventing Firearm Violence. Ann Intern Med. ;123:813–814. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-123-10-199511150-00033

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1995;123(10):813-814.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-123-10-199511150-00033

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