waterman,

Dr Myers is an academic. They love jargon. My point is that being a liberal (I'm not by the way), or an academic doesn't necessarily mean a person is against gun ownership. Dr Kleck, an academic criminologist and an ACLU member, did what is perhaps the first really good research on gun ownership and crime. Much to his surprise it debunked much of the antigun propaganda and almost all of what passed for research up to that time. Arguably his research and publications have done as much or more to support the Second Ammendment than any thing else in the last 20 years. Another academic is Dr John Lott. Google his website. It is full of high quality research supporting gun rights.

Jerry Liles