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Researchers claim a new study provides some of the most compelling evidence yet for tighter gun controls in the US.
The researchers controlled for various other potential confounding factors, so this looks about the strongest evidence that I have seen so far that gun laws can work inside the US.
Researchers claim a new study provides some of the most compelling evidence yet for tighter gun controls in the US.
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The study links the abandonment of the background check to an additional 60 or so murders occurring per year in Missouri between 2008 and 2012. "Coincident exactly with the policy change, there was an immediate upward trajectory to the homicide rates in Missouri," said Prof Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. "That upward trajectory did not happen with homicides that did not involve guns; it did not occur to any neighbouring state; the national trend was doing the opposite – it was trending downward; and it was not specific to one or two localities – it was, for the most part, state-wide," he told BBC News. |
The researchers controlled for various other potential confounding factors, so this looks about the strongest evidence that I have seen so far that gun laws can work inside the US.
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