The LA Times: 3 laws that would eliminate 90% of gun deaths

[briarcreekguy]

Read it here, universal background checks, a background check to buy ammo, micro-chipped weapons. According to the article a lot of "Common Sense" gun control laws do not reduce the number of deaths. On the other hand "Stand your Ground" laws, lead to an increase in deaths, I read this as a bunch of violent lawbreakers, got their just rewards.

http://www.latimes.com/science/scie...deaths-three-laws-20160310-story.html?ref=yfp

 

[dennishoddy]

Heck ya! lets register everything. That will stop it all. LOL.....LOL......LOL.....

 

[Fyrtwuck]

I can remember when I was in my early twenties that before any handgun ammunition was sold the dealer had to log all the information on your drivers license.

I made a trip to Florida to visit family and tried to buy some .410 shotgun shells and the dealer wouldn't sell it to me cause I had an out of state license and "technically" it could be used in a handgun. (Thompson center).

 

[rickm]

I can remember back when if you was big enough to walk and had money in your hand you could buy whatever ammo you wanted with no questions. we use to go in and lay a nickle on the counter and ask for 5 rounds of 22 ammo and leave the store with it in our pocket.

 

[Norinoo]

I guess "thou shalt not murder" just isn't enough.

Thankfully people choose benevolent masters in suits who will protect them from themselves.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

...before any handgun ammunition was sold the dealer had to log all the information on your drivers license.

Then here in OK we'd need Excel spreadsheets for D/L.

 

[3/2ACR Vet]

The article mentions Maryland's (where I just escaped from) Fired Casing Identification database. Wonder why they don't mention that it was scrapped in 2014 because, in the decade and a half that it was active, it was used in a grand total of 0 successful prosecutions, while costing 10's of millions to run.

 

[mugsy]

Here's an interesting response from the NRA's Institute for Legislative Affairs (NRA ILA) website that refutes the validity of the study that the LA Times cites in it's editorial:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20160311/flawed-study-from-the-prestigious-lancet-exposes-broader-problems-in-anti-gun-research

And here is a link to the WaPo article questioning the study that is cited in the NRA ILA post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/10/why-this-gun-control-study-might-be-too-good-to-be-true/

 

[rawhide]

John Lott and the author of the research cited in the article debate the merits of the study on a radio program.
http://crimeresearch.org/2016/03/cp...s-effective-in-lowering-gun-related-deaths-2/

 

[_CY_]

Read it here, universal background checks, a background check to buy ammo, micro-chipped weapons. According to the article a lot of "Common Sense" gun control laws do not reduce the number of deaths. On the other hand "Stand your Ground" laws, lead to an increase in deaths, I read this as a bunch of violent lawbreakers, got their just rewards.

http://www.latimes.com/science/scie...deaths-three-laws-20160310-story.html?ref=yfp

what you don't see much is how the above study is based on faulty data.

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Gun control study's dramatic results 'implausible', say leading researchers
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/10/gun-control-study-flawed-researchers

But leading gun violence researchers have called that result "implausible", and said the study's design is so flawed that some of its findings are not believable.

Experts noted that the laws, which were on the books in only three states, were not actually being implemented in practice.

That "would be the biggest red flag, obviously, when they're finding huge effects of a law that doesn't exist", Daniel Webster, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, said.

He called the paper's approach "just not good science".