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  • Guns make us safe? NRA Theory debunked in New Stanford Analysis(Barf alert)

    07/01/2017 3:45:28 PM PDT · by Ennis85 · 55 replies
    News Views ^ | 1st July 2017 | Surley
    While the National Rifle Association (NRA) has long insisted that allowing Americans to carry guns make communities safer, an analysis of nearly 40 years’ worth of data has found that is not necessarily true. A Stanford Law School professor, John Donohue, and his team analyzed crime data from 1977 to 2014 and didn’t find evidence that areas where more Americans carry guns enjoy enhanced public safety or less crime. On the contrary, the researchers discovered that states that have enacted so-called right-to-carry (RTC) concealed handgun laws have experienced higher rates of violent crime than states that did not adopt those...