Posted on 03/13/2020 4:22:41 AM PDT by marktwain
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A rigorous study of crime and deer hunting spanning 20 years and millions of people, found long gun use in rural areas either slightly reduced violent crime or had no impact.
Aside from the contributions above, this paper is meaningful for policy-makers as it provides evidence that immense changes in rural recreational long gun use have no economically significant impacts on violent crime.
This is an enormous, well-done study that is being ignored by urban media. The study was published on 1 December 2018.
The author, Paul Niekamp deserves kudos for tackling a difficult academic problem with integrity. Mr. Niekamp works hard at identifying potential problems and dealing with them in his study. His identifying of deer season long gun use as a natural experiment to measure the effect of long gun availability on crime rates was a brilliant insight.
The finding that alcohol and drug offenses by juvenile males dropped by significant amounts during the increased long gun usage destroys the image of rural gun owners as drunken, irresponsible louts.
Second Amendment supporters have long touted the positive effects of firearms training and hunting on the character development of young people. The study is the first to validate that effect in a rigorous academic paper, albeit only as it relates to reduced illicit drug and alcohol use.
The numbers of crimes are low in rural communities to start with. It makes the study findings all the more compelling.
In low crime areas, the prevalence of long gun use (actively carrying long guns and ammunition) is increased by huge amounts: 300%, on average, during deer season. The effect on violent crime is non-existent or a slight decrease. From semanticscholar.org:
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It is so refreshing to see the first four subjects at the top of the forums list that have nothing to do with coronavirus.
This hype and hysteria is to the point to where FReepers lovefest for AOC and Tulsi would be a welcome comeback.
And to think yesterday someone could not find enough on the subject.
It’s all enough to consider stopping my monthly donations.
Unfortunately, in the psyche of non-firearm owners (fueled by the astroturf Bloomberg anti-gun groups and a complicit media,) a single Sandy Hook trumps decades of FBI statistics.
no economically significant impacts on violent crime.
Basically are subset of John Lott’s thesis “More Guns, Less Crime”. It will be either ignored or denigrated by the larger media. It “is” nice to have the hard science available, though.
Has anyone done a comparable study for handguns...their availability has also skyrocketed??
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