The economist John Lott, in his book More Guns, Less Crime, states that laws which make it easier for law-abiding citizens to get a permit to carry a gun in public places, cause reductions in crime.

Less than two years after breaking ground, Kings Island opened its gates to the public on April 29, 1972.

Less than two months after she declared having beaten the disease, Faithfull made her public statement of full recovery.

Less than 10 percent of the 1, 000, 000 of each denomination issued were sold and the remainders were incinerated ( the stamps were only available for sale to the public from April 19, 1930, to June 30, 1930 ).

Less known to the general public is his work as a cryptographer.

Less capable of fulfillment was Amir Kabir ’ s desire to prohibit the taziyeh, the Shiʿite “ passion play ” enacted in Moharram, as well as the public self-flagellation that took place during the mourning season.

Less than two weeks after the release of the Dirty Laundry report, Puma made a public commitment to deal with the issues raised by Greenpeace.

An additional shopping complex on Mary Street, completed in November 2011, contains a second Woolworths supermarket, a Big W store, Dick Smith, Priceline, Best & Less, 45 specialty stores, a food court and the public library with undercover parking for over 900 cars.

Less than two dozen public middle schools in Texas are official IB schools.

Less than one-kilometre away from the National Sailing Centre on the south-eastern part of Singapore, the venue for triathlon is situated along the East Coast Park, Singapore ’ s largest and most popular public beach and park.

Less than two days later ( still during the scheduled vacation ), he and his administration began a new public relations campaign to rally support for the war in Iraq.

Less formal efforts, called community building or community organizing, seek to empower individuals and groups of people by providing them with the skills they need to effect change in their own communities.

Less than two weeks later, Hart heard arguments from conservation groups that the TAPS project violated the Mineral Leasing Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, which had gone into effect at the start of the year.

Less commonly, more conservative views are held by some groups:

Conservative Democrats ' views are moderate with respect to key policy issues such as foreign policy, regulation of the environment and the role of government in providing a social safety net ... Less extreme on moral beliefs than core Republican groups, but most oppose gay marriage and the acceptance of homosexuality, and support a more active role for government in protecting morality.

Less can be said about the Asterales themselves with certainty, although since several families in Asterales contain trees, the ancestral member is most likely to have been a tree or shrub.

Less politically, most faiths have any number of people that are believed to have been touched by divine forces: saints, prophets, heroes, oracles, martyrs, and enlightened beings, among others.

Less common but potentially more detrimental forms of counterproductive behavior have also been investigated including theft, violence, substance use, and sexual harassment.

Less rigorous studies have proposed a correlation between zeaxanthin intake and cataracts.

Less conservative linguists have advanced proposals on the vocabulary and syntax of the ancestor language.

Less common have been bowler hats ( mostly among suedeheads and those influenced by the film A Clockwork Orange ).

Less important are the arms industry and glass, but these have a long tradition in Bohemia.

Less information is available about the education of Spartan girls, but they seem to have gone through a fairly extensive formal educational cycle, broadly similar to that of the boys but with less emphasis on military training.

Less widely found is best-case performance, but it does have uses: for example, where the best cases of individual tasks are known, they can be used to improve the accuracy of an overall worst-case analysis.

Less commonly, a non-degenerative condition may have secondary effects on brain cells, which may or may not be reversible if the condition is treated.

Less adversarial approaches to divorce settlements have recently emerged, such as mediation and collaborative divorce settlement, which negotiate mutually acceptable resolution to conflicts.

Less than a few hundred of such kidney donations have been performed.

Less developed countries have not established a set of institutions favoring equality and role of education for the masses and therefore have been incapable of investing in human capital stock necessary for technological growth.

Less common have been biplanes with the lower wing's leading edge ahead of the upper wing, called " negative stagger ".

Less skilled batsmen, or ones who have lost their concentration, can be deceived completely, expecting the ball to move one direction off the pitch, only for it to move the other direction.

Less extreme examples of much less restrictive peering requirements being set for regions in which a network peers, but does not sell services or have a significant market share, are relatively common among many networks, not just regional tier 1 networks.

To moderate the euphemistic aspect of the word developing, international organizations have started to use the term Less economically developed country ( LEDCs ) for the poorest nations which can in no sense be regarded as developing.

Less than two generations after Ovid's publication, Acts 14: 11-12 relates the ecstatic reception given to Paul of Tarsus and Barnabas: " The crowds shouted ' The gods have come down to us in human form!

Less dramatic cargo cults have appeared in western New Guinea as well, including the Asmat and Dani areas.

There have been three editions of More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, all published by University of Chicago Press,

Less than five miles ( 8 km ) from Taylorsville evidence of people killing and eating a mammoth have been found.

Less known, but no less incisive in their creative development is their intense engagement in stage design for opera, ballet and theatre: since 1988, the Quays have created sets and projections for performing arts productions on international stages.

In 1855, a critic described the painting's vibrant handling as " Less finished than a painting, more finished than a sketch, The Murder of the Bishop of Liège was left by the painter at that supreme moment when one more stroke of the brush would have ruined everything ".

Less than three decades ago experiments were carried out for economical considerations with a commercial common bronze sheet or plating containing 8 % tin by weight.

Less frequently visited places include the race track ( although Andy frequently bets by listening to the radio, thus saving him the trip ), the marriage counsellor, and the football pitch ( where Andy is either being sent off, or carried off on a stretcher ).

Less than two months after the visit of the team to the Soviet Union, a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev was carried out.

Less often, endemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia felis and transmitted by fleas carried by cats or opossums.