Overwhelming Majority Of Studies Find That Gun Control Policies Don’t Work
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 2:48 pm
Overwhelming Majority Of Studies Find That Gun Control Policies Don’t Work
There you have it. A major independent study confirms that gun control laws are generally ineffective.An analysis of thousands of gun control studies claims that just 63 of those studies found connections between more stringent gun control laws violent crime and suicide reductions.
The non-profit RAND corporation spent two years and $1 million on the analysis, searching for evidence of benefit from gun control policies. RAND’s analysis looked to establish connections between gun policies and rates of homicide, suicide, self-defense gun use, hunting, and other categories. The vast majority of those categories went unaffected by legislation, however, according to NPR.
“Most of the effects that we were looking for evidence on, we didn’t find any evidence,” Andrew Morral, who lead the analysis...