Posted on 01/05/2014 9:24:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A study published in the latest issue of the academic journal Applied Economics Letters took on many of the claims made regularly by advocates of stricter gun laws. The study determined that nearly every claim made in support of stronger restrictions on gun ownership is not supported by an exhaustive analysis of crime statistics.
The study, “An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates,” conducted by Quinnipiac University economist Mark Gius, examined nearly 30 years of statistics and concluded that stricter gun laws do not result in a reduction in gun violence. In fact, Gius found the opposite – that a proliferation of concealed carry permits can actually reduce incidents of gun crime.
“Using data for the period 1980 to 2009 and controlling for state and year fixed effects, the results of the present study suggest that states with restrictions on the carrying of concealed weapons had higher gun-related murder rates than other states,” the study’s abstract reads. “It was also found that assault weapons bans did not significantly affect murder rates at the state level.”
“These results suggest that restrictive concealed weapons laws may cause an increase in gun-related murders at the state level,” the abstract concludes.
Gius notes that his findings are consistent with those of John R. Lott and David B. Mustard, two researchers who authored a controversial 1997 study which found that right-to-carry concealed gun provisions both “deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths.”
Leftism ignorance mythology isn’t concerned in the least about reality-based studies, or reality-based anything for that matter.
To the Left, “truth” is whatever advances Socialism, and anything which impedes Socialism is automatically false.
Reality is bigoted.
If the self-proclaimed better people who want the commoners disarmed actually were at all intellectually superior, they’d know better than to try to justify disarming us with patently obvious fake data and illogic. All they actually do is make spectacular public fools of themselves.
So if the desired and multiply expressed results of Gun-control laws is the exact opposite of what really occurs with Gun-Control laws in the population effected by the Gun-control Laws, then perhaps... just perhaps the actual desired are something else?
Like the disarming of the law abiding populace to make them easier prey for the actual constituents of the Democrats... Criminals. As was done with the Sullivan Act in New York, At least Sullivan was honest enough to admit it after the act was passed.
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Here is an important touchstone of this concept, from The Social Construction of Reality, a 1966 book by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann. The following quote is from the Wikipedia article on this book:
The work introduced the term social construction into the social sciences and was strongly influenced by the work of Alfred Schütz.The central concept of Social Construction of Reality is that persons and groups interacting in a social system create, over time, concepts or mental representations of each other's actions, and that these concepts eventually become habituated into reciprocal roles played by the actors in relation to each other. When these roles are made available to other members of society to enter into and play out, the reciprocal interactions are said to be institutionalised. In the process of this institutionalisation, meaning is embedded in society.
Knowledge and people's conception (and belief) of what reality is becomes embedded in the institutional fabric of society. Reality is therefore said to be socially constructed.
So if I refuse to believe in dead white men, I can fly by jumping off a building?
Take this, enmesh it with other recent study by Quinnipiac, toss in the comments by the new police chief of Detroit and the Obamabastard can shove his lame gun control agenda based on public safety up his butt. Gin Control has NOTHING to do with public safety and EVERYTHING to do with making the PEOPLE more afraid of their GOVERNMENT than their GOVERNMENT afraid of the PEOPLE - as the Founding Fathers INTENDED.
—would like to read the article but at $40, I’ll wait-—
Well said.
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For the Left, gun control has nothing to do with reduction of criminal behavior. Criminals will not be deterred by gun control laws and they know it. The goal of gun control is political power. If the crime argument doesn’t work, they will come up with some other argument. But, they will never admit their true aim.
and racist!
The useful idiots may believe that crap but the men at the top know what reality is. They have to know. All their power lies in manipulating the perception of reality by the masses. Nonsense like the Social Construction of Reality is designed to confuse and mentally disarm the opposition.
Yes, exactly.
Liberals are children.
The left - the hard left - is made up of users, abusers, and exploiters of these liberal children. When the left takes over, the line the liberal children up against a wall and send them to hell.
All the scientific studies in the world won’t overcome “But it feeeeeels right!”
States that have restrictive gun laws should be catagorized as police states similar to catagorizing terrorist states or human rights violating states.
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