He has been a consultant to the National League of Cities, the U.S. De- partment of Labor and many private organizations. His coauthor, W.W. Caruth III, is a lecturer on firearms and gun control laws who has spoken nationwide on the subject. He has worked as a volunteer at the Dallas County Forensic Science Center. In an Executive Summary of the study, Reynolds and Caruth list a number of the myths about gun control followed by a brief synopsis of the argufment destroying the myth. A acreful review of 18 academic studies shows that there is no relationship between the number of guns and the amount of crime in the United States.
International evidence tells a similary story.
The Nation already had 20,000 gun control laws, and the police arrest 220,000 people a year on weapons violations. Yet the violent crime rate is at an all-time high. Moreover, considering that fewer than one percent of all guns are involved in a crime and only 12 percent of all violent crimes involve a gun, gun control laws could have only a modest effect on crime - even if they worked exactly as intended, which they don't. For example, New Jersey, Hawaii and Washington, D.C. experienced sharp murder-rate increases after passing tough gun control laws. Canada, Taiwan and Jamaica reported similar experiences.