If you read down below the article in the comment section it makes it clear that the article was published by the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy in 2007.
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I?m sure the study is just fine, but before you start throwing the Harvard name around, you should expect to be hit back with the fact that the HJLPP is a conservative/libertarian legal journal.
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Whatever the merits of the study, it is simply inaccurate to call it a ?Harvard gun study.?
It was published in a Harvard student-run journal, true, but the authors are from the Pacific Research Institute (a ?free-market think tank?) and Simon Fraser University.
Mauser is a longtime foe of gun control and his PhD is in marketing, not criminology. Moreover, the journal does not seem to be peer-reviewed ? it?s a law journal run by law students, not a criminology journal edited by criminologists ? and according to its website it focuses exclusively on ?conservative and libertarian legal scholarship.?
So there is definitely evidence that this article is somewhat driven by ideology.
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Considering who the OP is I am not surprised who is behind the report. Disseminating wacky stories that seem sound on the surface is what Libertarians do.
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