Harvard Study on Gun Violence shows more guns equals less violence

[mav]

Harvard study on gun violence titled "Would banning firearms reduce murders and suicides?". Download it here.

One of the conclusions of the study is that "where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest".

This study needs to be thrown in the face of every single progressive and statist anti-gun proponent. Get the word out if this isn't already common knowledge.

 

[endus]

This has been posted before but it's worth reposting. FWIW they don't necessarily say that more guns equals less crime. They say...

1.) Stricter gun control does not reduce gun crime
2.) Looser gun control correlates with less gun crime, but causation can't be proven

Subtle difference, but important.

I trot this report out in comments on news articles all the time.

 

[invaliduser]

Long but good read. Especially nice it comes out of Harvard.

 

[dragonballzz]

Is self defense violence? You may need to perform a violent act in order to defend yourself.

 

[BattleSnail]

they must have HATED publishing that.

 

[mav]

This has been posted before but it's worth reposting. FWIW they don't necessarily say that more guns equals less crime. They say...

1.) Stricter gun control does not reduce gun crime
2.) Looser gun control correlates with less gun crime, but causation can't be proven

Subtle difference, but important.

I trot this report out in comments on news articles all the time.

The article makes the assertion that laws enabling firearms ownership actually reduces violence very clear, with footnotes providing the source(s). From the report:

"adoption of state laws permitting millions of qualified citizens to carry guns has not resulted in more murder or violent crime in these states. Rather, adoption of these statutes has been followed by very significant reductions in murder and violence in these states. "

 

[Jonny5]

Wasn't it Harvard (Medical?) that published a paper a few months ago saying that more guns equal more crime or something to that effect? I think the research was a bust due to questionable sources/data/calculations but I'll have to try and find it now.

 

[LittleCalm]

This is the infamous Kates/Mauser study that is regularly ignored by those pushing the GC agenda. Technically it is not a Harvard study, but rather was published in a Harvard journal. The more recent "study" that was published by one of the doctor orgs tries to say that states with stricter GC have fewer crimes, but IIRC that study has many major flaws in it and of course was funded in a partisan manner. Yet the doc study got all the press, naturally.

 

[Jonny5]

Thanks LittleCalm

 

[Squire]

Someone shoud organize a virtual party to post this study on the MAIG or Common Sense Moms page, hundreds of times, constantly, for 1 hour.

 

[Horrible]

Someone shoud organize a virtual party to post this study on the MAIG or Common Sense Moms page, hundreds of times, constantly, for 1 hour.

Facts? Logic? Studies? REAL Common sense? Come on, now. The groups you are referencing and the anti pols in this state and throughout this nation don't give a sweet $hit about any of that when it interferes with pushing an agenda and political power.