Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss
Conclusion - More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes - More firearms do not keep people safe, hard numbers show.
3 views
Skip to first unread message
Ubiquitous
May 26, 2021, 10:50:50 PM5/26/21
to
More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows
More firearms do not keep people safe, hard numbers show. Why do so many
Americans believe the opposite?
By Melinda Wenner Moyer on October 1, 2017
The claim that gun ownership stops crime is common in the U.S., and that
belief drives laws that make it easy to own and keep firearms.
But about 30 careful studies show more guns are linked to more crimes:
murders, rapes, and others. Far less research shows that guns help.
Interviews with people in heavily gun-owning towns show they are not as
wedded to the crime defense idea as the gun lobby claims.
"Most of this research預nd there have been several dozen peer-reviewed
studies用unctures 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."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-guns-do-not-stop-more-crimes-
evidence-shows/
More firearms do not keep people safe, hard numbers show. Why do so many
Americans believe the opposite?
By Melinda Wenner Moyer on October 1, 2017
The claim that gun ownership stops crime is common in the U.S., and that
belief drives laws that make it easy to own and keep firearms.
But about 30 careful studies show more guns are linked to more crimes:
murders, rapes, and others. Far less research shows that guns help.
Interviews with people in heavily gun-owning towns show they are not as
wedded to the crime defense idea as the gun lobby claims.
"Most of this research預nd there have been several dozen peer-reviewed
studies用unctures 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."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-guns-do-not-stop-more-crimes-
evidence-shows/
Ubiquitous
Jun 2, 2021, 8:36:43 PM6/2/21
to
0 new messages