Posted on 06/13/2015 12:53:55 PM PDT by richardb72
The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University put out this press release on a paper by Rudolph, Stuart, Vernick, and Webster:
"A 1995 Connecticut law requiring a permit or license – contingent on passing a background check – in order to purchase a handgun was associated with a 40 percent reduction in the state’s firearm-related homicide rate, new research suggests.
"Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, compared Connecticut’s homicide rates during the 10 years following the law’s implementation to the rates that would have been expected had the law not been implemented. The large drop in homicides was found only in firearm-related killings, not in homicides by other means, as would be expected if the law drove the reduction.
"The findings are published online June 11 in the American Journal of Public Health. . . "
(Excerpt) Read more at crimepreventionresearchcenter.org ...
It's likely that other factors drove that drop like the prevalence of video cameras which have gotten violent criminals off the street.
Health Cherry False would be a great stripper name.
Nice job chopping up that title.
like increased weapons sales in general
So they compared the actual rates to a phony, made-up rate?
Next thing you know; the Left will be making up phony historical temperature data, and comparing current temperatures to that.
even if an infringement on American citizens’ rights to keep and bear arms.....does some good, even if.....
it is not very germane, and certainly not persuasive of anything much at all
Americans’ Second Amendment rights were enumerated as key parts of our supreme law of the land.... for several important reasons... as any junior highschool student should be able to relate ...... These included preventing or detering a dictatorship from arising in Washington DC (sound familiar?)...............as well as, of course, our right to self-defense (why should our attackers, burgulars, rapists, murderers be the only ones with firearms?)
and for the defense of our families, friends, and communities
it was, and remains, a trade-off .. at best.... yes, accidents can happen with firearms. and yes, maybe in some places the rates of some unwanted incidents can decline if Americans are deprived of their rights to keep and bear arms
but the benefits of our Second Amendment rights remain true
I suspect there is more of a significant correlation between the Chicago murder rate and the decrease in the number of pirates.
This excerpt taken out of the article from John R. Lott’s “Crime Prevention Research Center tends to give the impression that the results you have republished here are approved by Dr. Lott. That is not the case, and your title ought to have shown that the whole article from CPRC proves that the reporting methods of their competitor, The Bloomberg School, are unprofessional.
There is a 100% correlation between me urinating in the morning and the sun coming up.
Beware, or I may just sleep in and you will all be in the dark.
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