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2005 U. Chi. Legal F. 55 (2005)
Gun Crime and Gun Control: The Hawaiian Experience

handle is hein.journals/uchclf2005 and id is 59 raw text is: Gun Crime and Gun Control: The Hawaiian Experience Joseph A. Peters,' Philip J Cooktt and Jens Ludwigj * An expert panel of the National Academy of Sciences re- cently issued a report concluding (among other things) that the effectiveness of existing gun-control measures could generally not be determined from the available evidence.1 The panel opined that the data are incomplete, but more importantly, that it is difficult to sort out the causal effects of such laws from other fac- tors that influence the rates of gun crime and misuse.2 Whether the objectives of gun control-to separate guns from violence, thereby reducing the deadliness of assaults and robberies-can be achieved has not been proven. But the stakes are high, involv- ing thousands of lives and perhaps up to $100 billion per year of social costs,3 and arguments continue to rage about which ap- proaches are most promising. In the absence of hard direct evi- dence, the arguments often emerge from generalizations about human behavior. t Master of Public Policy, Georgetown University. B.A., University of Texas at Aus- tin. tt ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy, Duke University and Research Asso- ciate, National Bureau of Economic Research. ttt Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University and Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research. . We thank Albert Alschuler, Bernard Harcourt, and symposium participants at the University of Chicago Law School for helpful comments, and Bob Malme for excellent research assistance. Any errors and all opinions are our own. ' See Charles F. Wellford, John V. Pepper, and Carol V. Petrie, eds, Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review 4 (Natl Academies 2005) (The inadequacy of data on gun ownership and use is among the most critical barriers to better understanding of gun violence.). 2 See id at 2-3 (The complex methodological problems inherent in unraveling causal relationships between firearms policy and violence have not been fully considered or adequately addressed.). 3 Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig, Gun Violence. The Real Costs 114-15 (Oxford 2000).

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