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Friday, March 22, 2019

The Science is Settled: Research Shows Gun Control Laws Do Not Reduce Violent Crime or Suicides

Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership sees lots of “studies” marketed as gun control justification that we don’t have time to report on in detail, though they all should be. Thankfully, they often are reviewed by other Second Amendment advocates. We thought we’d catch up on a few.

“California’s comprehensive background check and misdemeanor violence prohibition policies and firearm mortality” by Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, Garen Wintemute, MD, MPH, et al, in February’s Annals of Epidemiology.

We love this one, because it is one of the few from either the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Webster) or UC-Davis (Wintemute) that is reasonably well designed, following changes in the same location over time (trend analysis) rather than comparing different locations at the same time (cross-sectional analysis).

They found that neither California’s comprehensive background checks (UBCs) nor it’s prohibition of misdemeanor violence conviction status for firearm purchases made any difference in the incidence of firearm homicides or suicides—i.e., in “gun violence”. They were left advocating for “permit to purchase”, naturally, an escalation of infringement rather than admitting that their “gun violence” solutions are not.

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2 comments:

Lewis needs his home searched said...

Yes,

but wanna be Brigadier General LITTLE MIKEY LEWIS will seize your weapons based on Democrat Laws of restraining orders

More often.... not to return them to rightful owners after the courts drama...violation of the 5th Amendment

Anonymous said...

Anyone could of told them that