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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsResearchers reviewed thousands of gun policy studies and teased out a consensus
The findings on stand-your-ground and child access prevention laws are conclusive, the report says
By
Christopher Ingraham
April 23, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
Gun control discussions often get mired in competing academic claims regarding the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of various policy options.
Do concealed carry laws increase violent crime or make communities safer? Do assault weapon bans reduce mass shootings or do they have no effect? Do background checks reduce homicides and suicides or are they ineffective?
With so many disparate findings swirling about, it can be difficult to determine where the balance of evidence lies. But a new report from Rand Corp., a nonprofit think tank, has distilled reams of gun policy research published since 1995 to tease out the scholarly consensus.
In other words, theyve waded through thousands of findings so you (and your elected representatives) dont have to.
( excerpt) First, there was a clear consensus (indicated by three or more high-quality studies in agreement) that stand-your-ground laws, which allow people to use guns to defend themselves in public even if retreating is an option, result in higher overall rates of gun homicide. The higher rates arent simply from bad guys getting shot; the research shows that the additional deaths created by stand-your-ground laws far surpass the documented cases of defensive gun use in the United States.
There was also a broad consensus that child access prevention laws, which set requirements for how guns must be stored at home, are effective in reducing self-inflicted gun injuries among children and adults.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/23/definitive-guide-which-gun-safety-policies-actually-work/
lark
(23,061 posts)I'd love to see "STand Your Ground" made unconstitutional as it's just intended to be a license to kill minorities.
billh58
(6,635 posts)nothing more than legalized vigilantism and an incentive to carry out summary executions. It is the answer to every gun humper's dreams of becoming another famous "public protector" like George Zimmerman.
lark
(23,061 posts)I truly hate it.
CrispyQ
(36,421 posts)WaPo has a paywall, but here's the study from the link in the article:
https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy.html
keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)To the gun industry, dead children are merely collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donations.
keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)Joe The Plumber: Your Dead Kids Dont Trump My Constitutional Rights To Have Guns
Ironic how he chose that verb back in 2014
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html
DBoon
(22,340 posts)They are definitely NOT a liberal or progressive think tank. They focus on number crunching.
To me this gives the results additional validity.