New Study Claims Gun Control Reduces Child Deaths. About That…

By Tom Knighton

Over the last day or so, headlines all over the media were touting this new study that supposedly proves that states with strict gun control have fewer “pediatric” deaths from firearm misuse. I put “pediatrics” in quotes because this term is used to apply to anyone under the age of 21, which means a lot of adults fall into this category.

Still, is this the study that shows we’ve been wrong this whole time? I doubted it, but I’m not the best person to break down studies and find if they have any flaws. I knew someone else who probably knew better how to go after this would do so and I’d wait for them.

Luckily, I didn’t have to wait long.

From the National Review:

Normally, if you want to know what effect a law has, you look to see what changed before and after it went into effect. Do states that enact the law experience different trends relative to states that don’t? This study doesn’t do that; though it combines five years’ worth of data, it just compares gun-death rates across states with various scores from the anti-gun Brady Campaign. It’s “cross-sectional,” in other words. It doesn’t tell us …Read the Rest

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