Posted on 06/03/2021 5:59:36 AM PDT by marktwain
A study published in May of 2021 has rigorously shown such events do not reduce crime or suicides. Instead, the number of crimes committed with guns increases in the two months after the turn-in events (“buybacks”) are conducted.
The study was published by the National Bureau of Economics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the title:
The study authors are: Toshio Ferrazares, Joseph J. Sabia, and D.Mark Anderson
The term “buyback” is an Orwellian propaganda term. You cannot buy back what you never owned. I corresponded with one of the authors of the study, D. Mark Anderson. He confirmed my interpretation of the term but will keep it in the study. From a private email, with permission:
I also agree with your issue on the term “buyback,” but this is one we will probably leave unchanged. The reason being is that the economics literature has used this term exclusively. So, when researchers are interested in the topic, they are undoubtedly typing “buyback” into their search engine and we want our piece to show up in their searches.
The study of the gun turn-in events (labeled as buybacks) is the largest of its kind, both geographically, and over time. The study used the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) for a uniform and detailed database of crime information. The NIBRS is used by a bit more than one-third of police agencies in the United States, which limited some aspects of the study to those jurisdictions.
The study included gun turn-in events from 1991 through 2015, for a total of 25 years, and 339 events occurring in 277 cities. 41 of the cities had populations over 50,000 and were in jurisdictions using NIBRS. The study also compared deaths from suicide and homicide captured in the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) for
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File this under: Duh.
later
The government can’t ‘buy back’ my guns because I didn’t buy them from the government.
Molon Labe
Since the goals of gun control have nothing to do with reducing crime, why is this a surprise?
Bttt
Unintended consequences. To people who have no job, no income, the idea they can trade in a couple of their unusable, or cheaper handguns for enough to get high, well, that’s a big draw. So, they get their money, then they get high and come back down from the high and discover they are in a new area with no money. How did they get money before...well, they’re criminals. Now they are criminals in a new area looking to get high, and to get money to travel back to their home turf. What do they do? Commit gun crime.
This is similar to policies like giving away free needles, and then observing you have an increase in drug deaths. Shocking! Why do you suppose we have an increase in drug deaths? Perhaps it’s bad drugs and we should simply give the users better drugs. Surely that will cut down the drug deaths!
The problem with all Democrat policies is they look for a first order effect without running out the equation to discover the second and third order effects. Their thinking is naive. Look no further than “The Homeless.” A Democrat sees people living on the street and concludes giving them a place to live will solve the obvious problem, they’re homeless. Provide a home and they won’t be homeless. But homelessness is a symptom...not a cause. When I read something written from the liberal perspective, I feel as though it must have been written by a precocious five year old who has never left the home, but has watched enough CNN to understand how the world works. Or, how the world works from a narrow and filtered perspective.
They have realized the error of their ways. In the future, all gun shops will have to be turned over to the government, and all guns will have to be purchased from the government
They have realized the error of their ways. In the future, all gun shops will have to be turned over to the government, and all guns will have to be purchased from the government
That is the way it works in Mexico. Mexico has a strong right to keep and bear arms provision in their constitution.
Their Supreme Court ruled the provision was met if the federal government allowed people to buy guns in one government run shop in Mexico city, with regulations so difficult to comply with that ordinary people are shut out.
But they make liberals feel SO good!
Can’t make the guns you burgled operate? Let the GOVERNMENT help you out!
Let’s see I steal a gun use it in a crime. The government buys it from me and destroys it. Is this a great country or what.
“Academic Study: Gun Turn-Ins (“Buybacks”) Increase Crime committed with Guns”
So is it because a lot of folks are turning in guns they stole and then have to go out and steal another?
All guns will have to be taken from the government because they won’t sell them.
Call it the gun take back program.
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