Posted on 02/15/2013 7:36:18 PM PST by marktwain
Universal background checks before gun purchases can have an enormous impact on reducing firearm-related deaths, according to testimony presented before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee this week.
Missouri, the site of President Barack Obamas recent gun control speech, had a firm permit-to-purchase law in place until 2007, when it was repealed. The law -- which both the Missouri Sport Shooting Association and NRA helped overturn -- required Missouri residents to obtain a sheriffs permit before purchasing a concealable weapon.
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While gun rights lobbyists, led by the National Rifle Association, claim criminal background checks before all purchases are impractical and unnecessary, research from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research found that strict guidelines may actually reduce gun-related homicides.
Missouri, the site of President Barack Obamas recent gun control speech, had a firm permit-to-purchase law in place until 2007, when it was repealed. The law -- which both the Missouri Sport Shooting Association and NRA helped overturn -- required Missouri residents to obtain a sheriffs permit before purchasing a concealable weapon.
Although, under federal law, gun dealers are already required to run background checks on individuals purchasing handguns, that regulation only applies to licensed dealers. The Missouri law went one step further by mandating background checks on the sale and transfer of firearms between individuals and unlicensed dealers.
Preliminary evidence suggests that the increase in the diversion of guns to criminals linked to the laws repeal may have translated into increases in homicides committed with firearms, Webster said in his written testimony to the Senate. From 1999 through 2007, Missouris age-adjusted homicide rate was relatively stable, fluctuating around a mean of 4.66 per 100,000 population per year. In 2008, the first full year after the permit-to-purchase licensing law was repealed, the age-adjusted firearm homicide rate in Missouri increased sharply to 6.23 per 100,000 population, a 34 percent increase. For the post-repeal period of 2008-2010, the mean annual age-adjusted firearm homicide rate was 5.82, 25 percent above the pre-repeal mean.
Surprisingly not considered a sharp increase.
All gun grabbing work usually leads to the Joyce Foundation
The Joyce Foundation pays for and gets studies, polls and other misinformation that is anti-gun.
Follow the money trail.
Johns Hopkins Center for Anti-Gun Policy and Research
Very bogus assumption without indicating the source of guns. I doubt they were legally purchased and immediately used to murder someone. Study also fails to note impact of economic downturn. This is pure BS. As Mark Twain said: “There are lies,damned lies, and statistics.”
Precisely, because what would you assume if you heard:
...Center for Religous Policy and Research
...Center for Censor Policy and Research
...Center for Policy and Research of the Jewish Problem
And no doubt, our tax dollars and IOUs are being spent on grants to fund studies on how to restrict our freedom.
Well, that would be the general rule. After all, for each murder in a given year, there are thousands of legal, law-abiding gun owners. Thousands.Which would tell anyone who was willing to hear it that, as a rule, guns arent made, and arent bought - at least not legally - to commit crimes but to prevent them. A gun is an insurance policy against violence. You buy an insurance policy, you hope you dont need it. And even if one encountered if a miscreant who was armed, he might see no reason to risk picking a fair fight. A fellow could get hurt doing that . . .
But the fact that national homicide rates have plummeted since the advent of shall-issue CCW means nothing.
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