Harvard Journal Study of Worldwide Data Obliterates Notion that Gun Ownership Correla

[mp510]

This is an interesting read from the Center For Individual Freedoms:
http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/in_our_opinion/Gun-Ownership.htm

 

[PocketP11]

A very interesting article, thanks for posting it!

 

[fletcher]

Awesome. I'll definitely be sending this one around (and try to find the study).

EDIT: Here's the actual study: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

 

[Smeg]

Brilliant. Thanks for posting.

 

[jpk1md]

There is a lengthy discussion about the Kates-Mauser publication in the L&P forum...take a look when it reopens...hopefully soon.

 

[thexrayboy]

Blsephemy...heresy. Let us take the authors of this diatribe and burn them at the stake for such evil thinking.

Oops..... I forgot this is THR not the DailyKos or DU.

Nice article.

 

[Tyro]

Not to be pedantic, but this isn't actually a study, it's an article that reviews and interprets several studies dealing w/ gun ownership and violence, along with international crime data. It's well written, and pursuasive, but it's not a formal study - the authors refer to it as an article.

The reason that I'm pointing this out is that if you go into a debate citing this article as a study, this fact is going to be thrown back at you.

But again, their interpretation of the data is well founded and IMO provides good evidence of the independence of the incidence of violent crime from gun ownership.

 

[denfoote]

All this proves is that gun control is people control!!
A concept so obvious that the "neanderthals" who founded this place knew it!! (sarcasm mine)

The grand communist, Josef Stalin knew this to be true!!

"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin)

So did Mao Zedong

"Power grows out of the barrell of a gun."

-- Mao Zedong

This also explains why socialist traitors strive to disarm us!!

I grew up during the "Kill a commie for Christ" era.
I still believe this to be the only viable solution to the socialism/liberalism/communism/ environmentalist problem!!!

 

[hso]

Outstanding article!

 

[eliphalet]

Didn't the recently concluded CDC's study come to a similar conclusion?
Yes.
Less guns do not equal less crime, Duh!
The final couple of paragraphs speak volumes

Over a decade ago, Professor Brandon Centerwall of the University
of Washington undertook an extensive, statistically sophisticated
study comparing areas in the United States and Canada to
determine whether Canada’s more restrictive policies had better
contained criminal violence. When he published his results it was
with the admonition:
If you are surprised by [our] finding, so [are we]. [We] did
not begin this research with any intent to “exonerate” handguns,
but there it is—a negative finding, to be sure, but a negative
finding is nevertheless a positive contribution. It directs us
where not to aim public health resources.