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JOHN M. OLIN LAW & ECONOMICS WORKING PAPER NO. 73
(2D SERIES)
Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and
Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws:
Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement
John R. Lott, Jr. and William M. Landes
THE LAW SCHOOL
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings,
and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws:
Contrasting Private and Public
Law Enforcement
John R. Lott, Jr. and William M. Landes1
I. Introduction
Few events obtain the same instant national and even
worldwide news coverage as when several people are shot and killed
in a public place. The worst examples in the United e
readily to mind: Colin Ferguson killed 6 people during his rampage
on the Long Island (NY) Railroad in December 1993; 22 people
were killed during the October 1991 shooting in Luby’s Cafeteria in
Killeen, Texas; 5 persons died at the Cleveland Elementary School
in Stockton, California in January 1989; and 21 persons were killed
at the San Ysidro, California McDonald’s in July, 1984. Shootings
by disgruntled post office employees, has led to the phrase “going
postal” entering our language. And with the recent public school
shootings, a sense of urgency has also been added to the discussion.
The mon suggestion for reducing the incidence of
public shootings (the term we use to denote shootings in public
places where two or more individuals are killed or injured) calls for
greater regulation of guns. For example, recent public shootings in
Tasmania, Australia and Dunblane, Scotland have lead to strict gun

1 Lott is John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and Landes is Clifton
R. Musser Professor of Law & Economics at the University of Chicago Law
School. We