Word: crout
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Opponents also argue that there is little justification for banning handguns on grounds that gun availability leads to suicide. MIT Professor Prescott Crout, also of GOAL, points out that the number of guns in circulation has increased dramatically since 1950 while the suicide rate has remained almost constant. He cites a study by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence entitled Firearms and Violence in American Life, which concluded, "There is little reason to expect that reducing the availability of guns will cause a signifcant reduction in suicides. A person who really wants to die will find...
...Crout explains that after enactment of the tough Sullivan law in New York in 1911, murders increased by 18 per cent the following year and burglaries increased so fast that insurance companies petitioned the legislature to repeal the law. Today, he says, New York City prohibits handguns almost entirely and has the second highest murder rate of cities over a million, along with 21 per cent of all robberies committed in the United States...
...example Crout cites the case of Joyce Boyd in 1974. "After taking an early walk near Putnam Reservoir in Danvers, Massachusetts, she was attacked by two men when she returned to her car. Their obscene language made their intentions clear; but fortunately she had a handgun, the sight of which caused them to change thuir tune from 'White Mama' to 'OK Lady,' after which they ran to their car and drove...