Salon Uses Manipulated Data To Claim Right-To-Carry Laws Create More Crime

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Posted January 29, 2018 9:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Salon‘s Amanda Marcotte has never met a progressive cause she didn’t love. She’s also not afraid to suspend any pretense at critical thinking in order to support the narrative. Most recently, she wrote about how science now proves right-to-carry laws lead to more crime. It proves it!

Of course, it proves it by using “statistical techniques” that illustrate things that they don’t really illustrate.

John Donohue, a legal researcher who works for Stanford Law School, has been working on this question for the better part of two decades. “Turns out it’s a tricky question to answer through statistical means,” he told Salon. But now “this data [has] become complete enough, and some of the new statistical techniques have been implemented,” he continued.

The correlation between the passage of right-to-carry or RTC laws and violent crime has long been documented, Donohue explained, but as anyone with even the most basic knowledge of statistics understands, correlation is not causation. Now, with a combination of sophisticated statistical analysis techniques, Donohue and his team believe they have been able to document a causal relationship.

“Ten years after the adoption of RTC laws, violent crime is estimated to be 13-15 percent higher than …Read the Rest

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