Research Paper

I have to write a research paper in order to finish up one of my classes. I am considering writing it on the failures/myths of gun control laws.

I cannot use Internet sources.

Does anyone know of any articles or books that I can reference? Possibly at a library.

Want to show information about mental health,crimes before firearms were invented, failures of other countries and the consequences of citizens not being able to defend themselves, pro gun statistics, etc...

It needs to be about 10 pages so the more references the better.

I know we discuss all of this but if someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

This book has lots of accounts of self defense, and the first one is about Katrina and how important firearms were in the lack of police protection, also goes into how the lack of firearms affected people after the disaster.

http://www.amazon.com/Thank-God-Had-Gun-Self-Defense/dp/0965678458

If your interested, I could LOAN you the book if I can find it.

For those research papers you can still use the internet, just cite the documented source ie: the book or literature, not the website.

Go to:

http://www.gunfacts.info/

You can download a PDF with more (true) information than you will ever need, with the original sources referenced. I keep an updated copy on my tablet.

Firearms were invented in the 13th century in China, following gunpowder in the 10th century. I don't think you're going to find many primary sources from the prior period.

John Lott's "More Guns Less Crime" may help with modern stats.

You might search somewhere for medieval criminal acts or Roman Empire criminal acts, but I don't personally know of such a study.

You can reference FBI crime statistics and compare violent crime rates versus other countries. Britain typically has more violent crime per 100k residents than the US. Also, there will be no relevant evidence to find pre-gun, but plenty sans gun. Also, research about the number of mass shootings. Its been a while but there are surprisingly few and I think Purdue (emphasize think) had a study where all but two in recent decades have been in "gun free" or severely restricted gun zones. There should be plenty for only ten pages. For grad school you should use typically 4-5 sources per page written but I'm guessing you'll need a lot less. At Ole Miss we used a database called JSTOR that you could search for articles/excerpts but you should have something similar that would be useful.

Also, don't forget that word has tools in it that will create the footnote/endnote and bibliography reference for you simultaneously now. That can save you a lot of time. If you need more help just let me know.

One final note - is your topic pre-approved? Based on what you said you're making a classic fail grade mistake for a lot of professors (knowing the answer before you research). Using the word failure implies you already have it figured out. Research should begin with a question and the evidence helps you arrive at an answer, not the other way around. I'd consider changing the topic to something like "Are gun controls effective?" or "Does more gun control mean more safety?" and so on.

John Lott's "More Guns Less Crime" is an amazing resource. But like said above just google stuff and take their sources from journals and books and use those.

Yall have given me a great starting point. Thank you for the input.
I will let you know about the book general mills

Know this thread is old but just wanted to say thanks for the advice. I got an A.

well done rdm.

Glad to help, and well done, sir!

rdm227 said:

Know this thread is old but just wanted to say thanks for the advice. I got an A.

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Hmmm! Conservative non-douche professor, eh?