Study: Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder? No!

[JohnRich 4]

News:

Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder?

Abstract

The world abounds in instruments with which people can kill each other. Is the widespread availability of one of these instruments, firearms, a crucial determinant of the incidence of murder? Or do patterns of murder and/or violent crime reflect basic socio-economic and/or cultural factors to which the mere availability of one particular form of weaponry is irrelevant?

This article examines a broad range of international data that bear on two distinct but interrelated questions: first, whether widespread firearm access is an important contributing factor in murder, and second, whether the introduction of laws that restrict general access to firearms has been successful in reducing violent crime or homicide.

Our conclusion from the available data is that murder and violent crime rates are determined by basic social, economic and/or cultural factors with the availability of any particular one of the world’s myriad deadly instrument being irrelevant.

Source: Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy

[Remster 30]

So the corellary is that lack of gun control laws do not lower the number of murders... Right?

Remster

[Skyrad 0]

What was the middle bit?

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[ryoder 1,590]

That just reminded me of a joke from ages ago on the old TV show "Welcome Back, Kotter":

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That neighborhood is so rough, they don't use guns; They just insert the bullets manually.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.