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A Johns Hopkins University study has concluded that criminals in states that require licensing and registration of handguns have a harder time acquiring guns than those in states that don't have such laws.

As always, I stop reading these peices at the first lie. And again, its in the first sentence. There would be absolutely no way of comming to this conclusion. States with strict "gun control" have the highest crime rates. This is fact. I have no idea what they mean by "harder time", since criminals are not obtaining them illegally.

Its ridiculous to even expect someone to believe that criminals have harder times getting guns in states with higher crime rates.

"We believe that when criminals must rely on out-of state sources, the price of guns increases significantly, and they are much more difficult to obtain," Webster said."

Right on, FreeTally. This conslusion is in no way supported by this study. Webster admits this later on in the article. He merely takes this conslusion as an article of faith. BUT, it is this unsubstantiaed conslusion which is pasted as the headline for the article. Clearly, this study will be cited over and over to support the conslusion that the study didn't even address. When someone attempts to point this out they will be accused of rewriting history. This seems to be pretty much the modus operandi for scientific studies on sensational topics these days.