John Lott's newest piece at Fox News discusses the forthcoming study in the Journal of Urban Health that has been getting a lot of media attention. His piece starts this way: With headlines claiming “Study Shows Gun Control Works,” media outlets such as CBS, MSNBC,...
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What does Missouri show about the benefits from universal background checks?: Nothing really. Notes on the forthcoming Journal of Urban Health study by the Bloomberg School of Public Health
There has been some attention given yesterday and today about a study coming out from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University: Repeal of Missouri's background check law associated with increase in state's murders Missouri's 2007 repeal of its...
Fewer than 1 percent of state prison inmates obtained their guns at the time of offense from gun shows, costs of regulations exceed benefits
What is interesting is the remarkable consistency of the rate that criminals obtained their guns from gun shows (a copy of the earlier report is available here). One problem with using these surveys is that people think that if one were to actually stop all criminals...