Kopel, David

Kopel, David B., ed. Guns Who Should Have Them Amherst, N.Y. Prometheus Books, 1995. Presents opinions by experts in law, criminology, medicine, psychiatry, and feminist studies suggests that the emphasis on gun control is misplaced and that the real causes of crime lie in social factors such as the breakdown of the family. 

Kopel, David. Anti-Gun, Anti-Science The Real Enemy Is Shoddy Research. National Review Online. Available online. URL http //www. nationalreview.eom/kopel/kopel022701.shtml. Posted on February 27, 2001. Kopel, a criminologist and research director for the Independence Institute, imagines what it would be like if diseases were treated as crimes. The results would be as absurd and the research as shoddy as in the real world where some advocates want to treat gun violence as a health rather than criminal issue. An example of such junk science are studies that show higher risks of murder for people who have guns do not show causation and do not control for numerous related variables. 

Kopel, David B. Children and Guns Sensible Solutions. Independence Institute. Available online. URL http //rkba.org/research/kopel/ kids-gun.html. Downloaded on April 25, 1993. Argues that safety education, youth development, and proper law enforcement can reduce gun accidents and violence involving children, while gimmicky safety devices, laws, and lawsuits are unlikely to be effective. 

Kopel, David B., Stephen P. Halbrook, and Alan Korwin. Supreme Court Gun Cases. Phoenix, Ariz. Bloomfield Press, 2003. Although the Supreme Court has had few modern cases touching on the Second Amendment, dozens of cases have dealt with other aspects of gun laws. This compendium includes summaries and excerpts from 92 cases (including full text... 

Kopel, David B. Gun Control in Great Britain Saving Lives or Constricting Liberty Chicago Office of International Criminal Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1992. Analysis of British gun control laws and their effectiveness. 

Kopel, David B. Japanese Gun Control. Crime Justice International, vol. 19, June 2003, pp. 4—10. The author reviews the history of gun ownership and gun control in Japan. While he acknowledges that Japanese gun control has been very successful (guns are rare and gun crime even more so), Kopel argues that its implementation has depended on practices that would be entirely unacceptable in the United States. In Japan the authorities have extensive and intimate control over individuals, and persons can be searched or arrested and held for long periods without a judicial warrant. 

Albion Tourgee, quoted in David Kopel, The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy. Buffalo, N.Y. Prometheus Books, 1992, p. 333. 

David B. Kopel, former Manhattan assistant district attorney and firearms law expert. Kopel has written numerous pro-gun rights works including The Samurai, The Mountie, and the Cowboy, a cross-cultural analysis of gun control laws that concludes that the European approach to gun control... 

The Journal of American Citizenship, no. 78, July-August 1996, n.p. Argues that liberalization of concealed-carry laws did not substantially affect homicide rates and that the previous study by David McDowall, Colin Lofrin, and Brian Wiersema suffers from methodological flaws. Kopel reiterates that the rate of crime by permit holders is very low. 

Cramer, Clayton E., and David B. Kopel. Shall Issue The New Wave of Concealed Handgun Permit Laws. Tennessee Law Review, vol. 62, Spring... 

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