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When you add more guns ya' get more shootings.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article51044465.html
In Missouri, fewer gun restrictions and more gun killings
In the past decade, Missouri has been a natural experiment in what happens when a state relaxes its gun control laws. For decades, it had one of the nation’s strongest measures to keep guns from dangerous people: a requirement that all handgun buyers get a gun permit by undergoing a background check in person at a sheriff’s office.
But the legislature repealed that in 2007 and approved a flurry of other changes, including, last year, lowering the legal age to carry a concealed gun to 19. What has followed may help answer a central question of the gun control debate: Does allowing people to more easily obtain guns make society safer or more dangerous?
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Research by Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, found that in the first six years after the state repealed the requirement for comprehensive background checks and purchase permits, the gun homicide rate was 16 percent higher than it was the six years before. During the same period, the national rate declined by 11 percent. After Webster controlled for poverty and other factors that could influence the homicide rate, and took into account homicide rates in other states, the result was slightly higher, rising by 18 percent in Missouri.
Federal death data released this month for 2014 showed a continuation of the trend, he said. Before the repeal, from 1999 to 2006, Missouri’s gun homicide rate was 13.8 percent higher than the national rate. From 2008 to 2014, it was 47 percent higher. (The new data also showed that the national death rate from guns was equal to that of motor vehicle crashes for the first time since the government began systematically tracking it.)
Just like communities with more swimming pools have more drownings and freeways with more cars have more accidents. The ability for some to ignore this simple relationship between more of something and the results of that increase is amazing to me.
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funded by Bloomberg, not peer reviewed, and very flawed. Like the claims about Australia, it cherry picks years and lies by omission. While it is true the murder rate rose by 17 percent in the five years after the repeal in 2007, he forgot to mention that Missouri's murder rate increased 32 percent during the previous five years. One could just as easily argue that repealing the slowed the growth of the murder rate. Not only is this an example of card stacking, it is also post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Federal death data released this month for 2014 showed a continuation of the trend, he said. Before the repeal, from 1999 to 2006, Missouri’s gun homicide rate was 13.8 percent higher than the national rate. From 2008 to 2014, it was 47 percent higher. (The new data also showed that the national death rate from guns was equal to that of motor vehicle crashes for the first time since the government began systematically tracking it.)
Yet the gun homicide rate is often lower in places like Wyoming and Vermont than, say, New Jersey and Chicago. Why do you think why that is? Wyoming's gun to other weapon ratio is about half. Chicago's is in the high 90s percentile. Probably because Chicago's is mostly gangs killing each other, where gun laws are about as effective as gun laws.
last year, lowering the legal age to carry a concealed gun to 19. What has followed may help answer a central question of the gun control debate: Does allowing people to more easily obtain guns make society safer or more dangerous?
Were there a rash of murders committed by 19-21 year old CCW holders? If so, would they have left the gun home without the permit and used another weapon or be deterred? If the answers are "no" to either of these questions, how would one have anything to do with the other?
and even if there were, there is no cause and effect.
if they are from out of town.
Every time a surf the web I'm saving so many lives! I'm a hero.
It has to be true, the date is right there. Besides, it's in a convenient multi-colored chart, and that makes even more truthy.
I am hopeful that one day most people might understand the difference between causation and correlation (to the extent the data is not selective or manipulated).
