How Bloomberg Fudged the Numbers to Claim Gun Control Reduced CT Firearms Fatalities

By Robert Farago

Our man Leghorn did an excellent job fisking the gun control movement’s claim that “tight” gun control laws led to a reduction in firearms-related homicides. The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Legislative and Policy Research Director Elizabeth Karasmeighan had a bash at Bloomberg’s anti-ballistic bile, too ant it’s worth a second look . . .

A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health makes the spurious claim that Connecticut’s 10-year old handgun permit-to-purchase law kept the state’s firearms homicide rates (FHRs) lower than it otherwise would have been. To get to this unfounded conclusion, the authors, all from the anti-gun Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, created a set of assumptions that perfectly match their desired conclusion, cherry-picked years and fished for convenient variables.

While it is well documented that homicides with firearms have fortunately been on a steady decline nationwide over the past decade, the authors use a weak research design to compare Connecticut’s actual post-1995 FHRs with what they claim is an estimate of what those rates would have been in a hypothetical situation of the state not passing the handgun law.Without even looking at the study design, …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns