I was on the NPR program On The Media discussing the Myth of Defensive Gun Use. You can listen to the interview inside. We discuss aliens, social desirability bias, empirical attempts to quantify Defensive Gun Use Estimates, and the fact that…
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Debunking the “Good Guy With A Gun” Myth: Guns Do Not Make You Safer
Jan 27, 2015, 7:01 AM 37
**Note: This column appeared in Slate on 1/26/2015 ** Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association issued a passionate call to arms last year, painting a bleak picture of a dystopian America on the brink of collapse: We know, in the world…
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The Myth of Defensive Gun Use **Note – This article appeared in Politico on 1/14/2015 In the early hours of Nov. 2, 2013, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, a pounding at the door startled Theodore Wafer from his slumber. Unable to…
Data, Debunking Myths, Long Read
A Lott More Lies – Debating More Guns Less Crime
Dec 31, 2014, 6:31 PM 29
A Lott More Lies: Debating More Guns, Less Crime By: Devin Hughes and Evan DeFilippis John Lott and I had a debate on the David Pakman Show over the question of whether or not more guns decrease the crime…
Debunking Myths, History, Long Read
Shooting Down the Gun Lobby’s Favorite “Academic”: A Lott of Lies
Dec 1, 2014, 9:46 PM 122
By Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes More guns, less crime. Guns are used more in self-defense than in criminal acts. The vast majority of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones. Good guys with guns stop mass shootings. Guns make…
Constitution, History, Short Read
Gun Control and the Evolving Second Amendment
Sep 10, 2014, 8:19 PM 14
By: Devin Hughes In The Second Amendment: A Biography, Michael Waldman, President of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, provides a detailed yet highly accessible examination of the Second Amendment. Rather than becoming bogged down…
I have a new article out in Slate Magazine, one of the most shared columns in the last several months. It is reproduced below. Co-authored with Devin Hughes Caroline Sparks was 2 years old. Her 5-year-old brother was playing nearby…
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Had a long article published over at the Boston Review. The column is reproduced in full below: Why Did Chris Die? After his son Christopher was gunned down near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara on May…
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Data, Debunking Myths, Long Read, Philosophy
Why Stop-and-Frisk Does Not Work
Apr 16, 2014, 8:03 AM 6
The Inconsistency of Our Outrage The stop-and-frisk debate is instructive in that it spotlights the inconsistency in outrage that both conservatives and liberals display over the violation of constitutional rights. Many conservatives appear completely insensitive to the empirical reality…
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Data, Debunking Myths, Short Read
Do We Have a Gang Problem or a Gun Problem?
Apr 4, 2014, 7:57 AM 14
Hey friends, Devin and I just published an article over at the HuffingtonPost. It has been reproduced below. Guns, Not Gangs In a scathing critique of ABC’s recent report “Young Guns,” Dana Loesch stated that most gun deaths were the result…
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