From KPCC:
A new study published in the journal Lancet finds that three types of laws governing gun ownership in America can reduce the number of firearm deaths in the country. . . .
Bindu Kalesan, lead author of the study, “Firearm legislation and firearm mortality in the USA: a cross-sectional, state-level study.” She is an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University
John Lott, author, “More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws” (University of Chicago Press, Third Edition, 2010) and President of The Crime Prevention Research Center that focuses on the study of gun laws and public safety
The debate took place from 3:20 to 3:40 PM EDT on Monday, March 14, 2016.
From what I could tell, the doctors just ginned up a model based upon an extra to no valid statistical analysis.
The glaringly obvious question is, since California already has the laws, then why idles it have so many gun deaths? And why does a state like Vermont with none of the laws have a low gun death rate?
Calling the “study” junk science is an insult to junk science. That study is nothing but outright falsehood, propaganda for the gun control lobby.
Just an initial investigation to justify further study she says. First, it doesn’t justify anything other than a prohibition against the authors ever again publishing on the subject. Second, all the studying and analysis has already been done by Dr. John Lott.
That first sentence should read “From what I could tell, the doctors just ginned up a model based on next to nothing but invalid statistical analysis.”
Bindu was completely talking out of her ass.