Posted on 01/07/2020 6:51:51 AM PST by marktwain
Chart from California DOJ report, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten
A study of the effects of California's institution of Universal Background Checks, along with a state ban of firearms ownership for people who had committed a violent misdemeanor, has been published in The Annals of Epidemiology, volume 30, February, 2020.
The study covered a decade before the laws were passed to a decade after the laws was passed. It found the laws had no effect on firearms homicides or suicides. Here is the abstract of the paper, from Science Direct:
Purpose
In 1991, California implemented a law that mandated a background check for all firearm purchases with limited exceptions (comprehensive background check or CBC policy) and prohibited firearm purchase and possession for persons convicted within the past 10 years of certain violent crimes classified as misdemeanors (MVP policy). We evaluated the population effect of the simultaneous implementation of CBC and MVP policies in California on firearm homicide and suicide.
Methods
Quasi-experimental ecological study using the synthetic control group methodology. We included annual firearm and nonfirearm mortality data for California and 32 control states for 1981–2000, with secondary analyses up to 2005.
Results
The simultaneous implementation of CBC and MVP policies was not associated with a net change in the firearm homicide rate over the ensuing 10 years in California. The decrease in firearm suicides in California was similar to the decrease in nonfirearm suicides in that state. Results were robust across multiple model specifications and methods.
Conclusions
CBC and MVP policies were not associated with changes in firearm suicide or homicide. Incomplete and missing records for background checks, incomplete compliance and enforcement, and narrowly constructed prohibitions may be among the reasons for these null findings.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
What they need and won’t do is a Background check on illegals.
It is not relevant to Rats whether additional gun restrictions have a positive or negative impact on crime. They just don’t care and it has nothing to do with the point of gun control.
Gun control is solely about disarming non-criminal Americans so that once achieved, future tyrannical activities by Rats cannot be resisted.
So, they haven't gone far enough?
Tulsa and OKC used to require fingerprints for all handgun purchasers. The purpose was not to find criminals, but to discourage people from buying.
In Tulsa it was done at the gun shop. In OKC you had to go down town to the police station to have fingerprinting done.
Finally they realized this was doing nothing to prevent crimes so they dropped the fingerprinting requirements.
I think back to all the ink I wiped from my hands years ago.
All gun laws are nothing but attempts to discourage people from buying them. Nothing more.
Truer words were seldom spoken, as this is what drives true liberals. And the rest who just follows along don’t really know what the second amendment is all about.
Good job and well worth it. Thanks to Dean!
That is their conclusion.
You must give them credit for reporting the negative result.
It takes intellectual honesty to report a negative result that works against one's policy preferences.
Begrudgingly.
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