Posted March 3, 2018 12:23 pm by Comments

By Chris Enloe

A new analysis of thousands of gun control studies found that firearm restrictions had minimal, in any, effects on decreasing violent crime, homicides, suicides and unintentional deaths.

What did the study find?

The RAND corporation, which conducted the extensive study, found that only 63 percent of gun control studies testing specific firearm restrictions found a desirable outcome, such as reductions in homicides, suicides and other violent crime.

RAND analyzed thousands of gun control studies over the course of two years and spent more than $1 million on the study. They sought to determine how gun policies “affect outcomes, such as suicide rates and hunting participation” — and the results couldn’t have been more unequivocal.

“Most of the effects that we were looking for evidence on, we didn’t find any evidence,” Andrew Morral, a behavioral scantiest who lead the study, told NPR.

For example, the analysis found that policies targeting mass shootings, hunting and recreation, defensive gun use and officer-involved shootings were “inconclusive, at best.”

Meanwhile, the study found relatively strong evidence that “child-access prevention laws” — such as laws that force gun owners to store firearms under lock and key in a household with minors — likely decreased suicides, unintentional deaths and …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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