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Posted on 07/09/2017 6:30:11 PM PDT by richardb72
A new, unpublished study by John Donohue, Abhay Aneja, and Kyle Weber has received a lot of attention for supposedly finding some evidence that right-to-carry laws increase overall violent crime rates. It has been covered in Newsweek, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Vice, Snopes, and many newspapers such as Newsday and the Salt Lake City Tribune. As is typical of Donohue’s work, there is no attempt to mention or respond to prior criticisms, and he just repeats the same, seriously biased methods and errors.
Publications such as Time and Newsweek would always interview critics when they ran stories on Lott’s original research. But when studies have the right political biases, reporters no longer get both sides of the story. But especially when the media explicitly describes a study as “debunking” John Lott’s previous research, you might think a reporter would call up Lott and get his take on it. It has been two weeks after the Donohue-led research started getting attention, and not a single reporter has contacted him.
The bottom line is pretty clear: Since permit holders commit virtually no crimes, right-to-carry laws can’t increase violent crime rates. You can’t get the 1.5 to 20 percent increases in violent crime rates that a few of their estimates claim with only thousandths of one percent of permit holders committing violent crimes. To put it differently, states would have to be miss reporting 99%+ of crimes committed by permit holders for their results to be possible.
The synthetic control tests where they use anything from two to four states to predict the changes in another state’s violent crime rates are extremely arbitrary. For example, would you look almost exclusively to Hawaii to predict violent crime rate changes in Idaho, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Utah?
(Excerpt) Read more at crimeresearch.org ...
Yes it does...against criminals. But that’s not a crime.
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How many states have passed or changed carry laws since 1977? Mass shootings and other violent crimes often take place in "gun free" zones where even licensed concealed carry is not allowed. As we've seen in France, Britain, etc., you don't need a gun to cause a lot of death and chaos, especially in places where no one is well armed.
Wikipedia is already referencing this garbage research.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States#cite_note-15
The only thing that causes increases in violent gun crime is democrats with guns. Disarm democrat supporters and gun crime craters by 88%
Nearly all gun crime is committed by liberal constituents in big cities with stolen or illegally bought weapons.
Confusing cause with effect, these geniuses are. CCW is more likely to be sought where the crime picture causes it to make more sense.
Aaaand, how many of the Dem strongholds "studied" have degenerated from semi-decent places to the gang-riddled slums of today?
This so called study is irrelevant. The right to carry is a God given inalienable right that supersedes any manmade law. All politicians and tyrants carry, therefore all citizens must do likewise.
Same old same old. Like an early Gun Smoke episode that I recall, where a federal superior takes over administration and bans all gun carrying. The townsfolk then get ready to lynch the nosybody fed, confident that Matt will not be able to shoot them, since they are all unarmed.
Let me guess. States with more violent crime have looser carry laws, so therefore carry laws cause violent crime.
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