Obama LIED About Correlation Between Gun Laws, Homicide

By Bob Owens

Ever eager to undermine the Second Amendment, Barack Obama has attempted to claim that states with stronger gun laws have fewer firearms deaths, and states with more liberty have more gun deaths.

Shocking no one, Professor Eugene Volokh has evidence showing that the President lied about guns, again.

There’s been much talk recently — including from President Obama — about there being a substantial correlation between state-level gun death rates and state gun laws. Now correlation obviously doesn’t equal causation; there may be lots of other factors that are the true causes of both of the things that are being measured. But if we do look for now at correlation, it seems to me that the key question should focus on state total homicide rates, or perhaps (for reasons I describe below) total intentional homicide plus accidental gun death rates. And it turns out that there is essentially zero correlation between these numbers and state gun laws.

Here’s the ten lowest-homicide jurisdictions in the United States along with their scores and grades from the Brady Campaign (the Brady Campaign is a gun control group that was relevant decades ago, but is increasingly irrelevant today).

As the chart clearly shows, seven of …Read the Rest

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