Posted on 03/11/2016 4:06:22 PM PST by richardb72
Academic advocates of gun control apparently need to manipulate the data in order to argue for background checks on private gun transfers. Even the prestigious medical journal, the Lancet, does not seem to be above publishing junk science on gun control. There has been extensive, glowing media coverage from the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Reuters, and US News & World Report.
Currently, background checks must be performed when a gun is purchased from a dealer. “Expanded” background check laws would require that checks also be conducted on private transfers of guns (say between a father and a son or with a neighbor).
These laws exist in 19 states. Of course, previous public health researchers simultaneously carefully pick one state at a time to examine (Missouri or Connecticut), which years to look at, and what types of crime to study. To do the matter justice, a researcher really must look at all of the states that passed the laws, and then compare the changes in crime rates between those states that passed the laws to those that didn’t.
Using data from 2010, the new Lancet study claims that these background checks on private transfers will reduce state firearms deaths (homicides plus suicides) by 57 percent. Yet, few researchers would look at firearm deaths across states in one year. . . . .
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More B/S, they just have to keep pounding that drum.
LEO's on the rational side of the state have poo-pooed it.
0vomit is in The White Mosque...
Someone who cannot pass a background check, but still wants a firearm is intent on breaking the law. What makes any rational person think breaking another law via an illegal transfer (lacking a background check) will dissuade the criminals? Bzzzt, it won’t of course. Expanded or universal background checks - by whatever name - don’t work, will not work, in fact simply cannot work as advertised. Yet another scam to chip away at our rights.
What don’t Americans understand about the term “criminal”? If a criminal wants a gun they will just steal it if they want to.
“don’t work, will not work, in fact simply cannot work as advertised.”
These laws are not designed to “work” for the purposes they are advertised as.
The ultimate purpose is to establish a universal registration. It will not reduce crime, it was never intended to do that. But, it will make anyone who has a gun that is not registered a criminal. That is the goal.
Once that is accomplished, gun confiscation and destruction of a legitimate gun culture is assured, incrementally, over generations.
It worked in England.
It is not working here, and has likely backfired as a strategy, but they keep on, figuring they can win, eventually. In the mean time, they have ignorant billionaire leftists shovelling money at them. Why wouldn’t they keep trying? They are being well paid!
So the authors credit technology that does not exist for a reduction in gun deaths? Amazing that idiots like this are actually paid money (and are probably tenured) by a university.
The “public health” papers on “gun violence” are pretty much “junk science”.
They are the equivalent of “Climate Change” computer models. They have become just another propaganda mode for the left.
Most of them refuse to even consider research that does not support their foregone conclusions.
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