Study shows gun shows do not raise firearm deaths

[aklaft]

To determine the impact of gun shows, the authors traced the number of gun-related deaths in ZIP codes close to where gun shows took place, looking at how the number of deaths changed leading up to and following the shows. Researchers looked at the gun-related deaths in the weeks immediately after gun shows and actually found a small decline in the number of homicides following shows in Texas.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001184106.htm

Interesting article. People don't go to gun shows to buy a gun for their suicide after all. We still have to close the gun show loophole though. FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

 

[jhblaze1]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001184106.htm

Interesting article. People don't go to gun shows to buy a gun for their suicide after all. We still have to close the gun show loophole though. FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

Ummmmm, what do facts/scientific analysis have to do with it?

 

[packingungal]

Gotta love those research grants....

 

[Jose]

File this one under the "no shit" category.

 

[doobie]

That makes no sense! More guns = more gun violence! Stop trying to make a point that doesn't exist and can't exist. We all know guns are a violent piece of metal. They are born and bred for one purpose and one purpose only, ejecting a small projectile at high velocities at meat! That must mean that more guns equals more deaths of people because we are made of meat!

 

[boomerang]

To determine the impact of gun shows, the authors traced the number of gun-related deaths in ZIP codes close to where gun shows took place, looking at how the number of deaths changed leading up to and following the shows. Researchers looked at the gun-related deaths in the weeks immediately after gun shows and actually found a small decline in the number of homicides following shows in Texas.
"The absence of gun show regulations does not increase the number of gun-related deaths as proponents of these regulations suggest," said Jacob, director of its Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP).
The researchers offered two caveats to their analyses. The study focused on the geographic areas surrounding the gun shows, and would not capture the effect when weapons were transported more than 25 miles away. In addition, the data tracked the effects only up to four weeks after the gun shows, which would exclude later gun-related deaths.

Does anybody else feel that this is a dumb concept to base their research on?

The geographical locality and murder/suicide to gun shows within four weeks of the show?

That research has absolutely nothing to do with the "gun show loophole" which is FTF transactions. The researchers could just as well do this study with sporting goods stores or pawn shops.