Scientific American: More guns do not stop crime

[Tanuki]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-guns-do-not-stop-more-crimes-evidence-shows/

...."Is there truth to this claim? An ideal experiment would be an interventional study in which scientists would track what happened for several years after guns were given to gun-free communities and everything else was kept the same. But alas, there are no gun-free U.S. communities, and the ethics of doing such a study are dubious. So instead scientists compare what happens to gun-toting people, in gun-dense regions, with what happens to people and places with few firearms. They also study whether crime victims are more or less likely to own guns than others, and they track what transpires when laws make it easier for people to carry guns or use them for self-defense.

Most of this research—and there have been several dozen peer-reviewed studies—punctures the idea that guns stop violence. In a 2015 study using data from the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University reported that firearm assaults were 6.8 times more common in the states with the most guns versus those with the least. Also in 2015 a combined analysis of 15 different studies found that people who had access to firearms at home were nearly twice as likely to be murdered as people who did not.

This evidence has been slow to accumulate because of restrictions placed by Congress on one of the country's biggest injury research funders, the CDC. Since the mid-1990s the agency has been effectively blocked from supporting gun violence research. And the NRA and many gun owners have emphasized a small handful of studies that point the other way.

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[SHRED]

1. And water is wet

[nolabear]

2. Pfft...typical elite media.

Elite facts. Elite physics. Elite compassion.

[underpants]

4. Legacy media

As gun girl saifbthe other day.

[Botany]

3. the NRA/gop have been blocking this kind of research for years because the know the results ....

... already. more guns = more gun deaths

"Also in 2015 a combined analysis of 15 different studies found that people who had access to firearms at home were nearly twice as likely to be murdered as people who did not."

[dalton99a]

5. Well, Scientific American is not an NRA-approved publication

It is not EPA-approved either.

[Major Nikon]

6. But the study defies "reason"

The problem isn't too many gun nuts, it's not enough gun nuts. The only thing that will keep us safe from the gun nuts are more gun nuts.

[DemocracyMouse]

7. Go science! Go logic! Boring but true!

[duforsure]

8. Evidence based truths

for these people are worthless after they've been propagandized to believe the opposite from trump and the NRA.