Connecticut handgun licensing law associated with 40 percent drop in gun homicides

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Connecticut handgun licensing law associated with 40 percent drop in gun homicides

Public Release: 11-Jun-2015
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

A 1995 Connecticut law requiring a permit or license - contingent on passing a background check - in order to purchase a handgun was associated with a 40 percent reduction in the state's firearm-related homicide rate, new research suggests.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, compared Connecticut's homicide rates during the 10 years following the law's implementation to the rates that would have been expected had the law not been implemented. The large drop in homicides was found only in firearm-related killings, not in homicides by other means, as would be expected if the law drove the reduction.

The findings are published online June 11 in the American Journal of Public Health, and will be discussed at a press conference hosted by Faiths United Against Gun Violence at the National Cathedral in Washington on June 11 at 4 p.m.

The Connecticut law requires all prospective handgun purchasers to apply for a permit in person with the local police regardless of whether the seller of the handgun is a licensed dealer or private seller. It also raised the handgun purchasing age from 18 to 21 years and required prospective purchasers to complete at least eight hours of approved handgun safety training.

"Association Between Connecticut's Permit-to-Purchase Handgun Law and Homicides" is written by Kara E. Rudolph, PhD, MPH, MHS; Elizabeth A. Stuart, PhD; Jon S. Vernick, JD, MPH; and Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH. The study was funded by a grant from the Joyce Foundation.

http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-rele...ed-with-40-percent-drop-in-gun-homicides.html

 

[Junior Bonner]

Bloomberg. That skewers it for me.

 

[1krr]

40% drop in "gun" homicides but not a 40% drop in homicides... Hmmm so the murder rate didn't drop, just the tool used to commit murder changed. Seems to imply that their gun control policy does absolutely nothing to prevent violent crime and actually creates victims. So in the spirit of social justice, maybe the JH "Center for Gun Control Policy" could become the JH "Center for Murder Prevention" if they are interested in actually preventing violent crime rather than whitewashing the implements of the criminal. That is assuming most murder victims don't care whether it was a gun or a card board box that was used to kill them.

 

[badrinker]

compared Connecticut's homicide rates during the 10 years following the law's implementation to the rates that would have been expected had the law not been implemented. ]

So they compared the actual rate with a total guess? Sounds like good science to me. Oh wait, "funded by a grant from the Joyce Foundation", now I understand their methodology.

 

[Glocktogo]

I'll bet those "statistics" are more worked over than a dockside hooker after fleet week!

 

[Brad A]

I'll bet those "statistics" are more worked over than a dockside hooker after fleet week!

And this ^ is probably an understatement

 

[Fyrtwuck]

Maybe if Blooming idiot sent monthly checks to all the druggies, thugs and thieves and support their habits they would stop crime altogether.

 

[Wheel Gun]

I can smell those cooked statistics all the way out here in Logan county.

 

[Catt57]

Omg what's that smell?!? Oh it's the crap being spewed out by the anti-gunners.

Define: statistics- numbers altered or made up to support one's argument.

 

[MadDogs]

When bills are crafted, it is common for legislators to outsource the writing to a university. For instance, Joe “Two Blasts” Biden had help with The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which contained the Clinton AWB. The university that helped was Johns Hopkins.

As Badrinker wisely noted, this study was founded by the Joyce Foundation. Barack Hussein Obama used to be on the board of the Joyce Foundation and they have a documented history of being very anti-gun.

This alleged study will likely be another (failed) effort by the progressively challenged to sell that correlation implies causation. And I would not be in the least surprised to find out that it was designed to help sell public opinion on a new round of federal gun legislation.