Umm...if they're serious about this, and not just trying to fabricate headlines, how about the county-level numbers?
OOPS!
Guess that would completely invalidate their theory, eh?
Umm...if they're serious about this, and not just trying to fabricate headlines, how about the county-level numbers? I think you just nailed it. It looks like this was done solely on a state level.
Further, people who lived in one of the six "high gun states" were nearly three times as likely to die from any homicide and more than four times as likely to die from gun-related homicide than those who lived in "low gun states," the report indicates.
If so, and if the county or track level data do not substantiate the claim (and they won't), then this is academic fraud on the level of humiliated antigun scholar Michael Bellesiles.