Ban all Guns!!
Gun owners are violent and need to be disarmed.
Largest Gun Study Ever: More Guns, More Murder
The largest study of gun violence in the United States, released Thursday afternoon, confirms a point that should be obvious: widespread American gun ownership is fueling America’s gun violence epidemic.
The study, by Professor Michael Siegel at Boston University and two coauthors, has been peer-reviewed and is forthcoming in the American Journal of Public Health. Siegel and his colleagues compiled data on firearm homicides from all 50 states from 1981-2010, the longest stretch of time ever studied in this fashion, and set about seeing whether they could find any relationship between changes in gun ownership and murder using guns over time.
Since we know that violent crime rates overall declined during that period of time, the authors used something called “fixed effect regression” to account for any national trend other than changes in gun ownership. They also employed the largest-ever number of statistical controls for other variables in this kind of gun study: “age, gender, race/ethnicity, urbanization, poverty, unemployment, income, education, income inequality, divorce rate, alcohol use, violent crime rate, nonviolent crime rate, hate crime rate, number of hunting licenses, age-adjusted nonfirearm homicide rate, incarceration rate,and suicide rate” were all accounted for.
Gun Owners of America director would be 'kind of glad' if lawmakers feared violence from his organization
WASHINGTON — This gun nut makes the NRA’s mouthpiece seem tame by comparison.
Larry Pratt, executive director of the group Gun Owners of America, was quoted Tuesday as saying he’s “kind of glad” if lawmakers fear violence from members of his organization.
The crack sparked outrage from Democrats and drew a rebuke from the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), whose promising political career was cut short when an assassin shot her in 2011.
More shooting deaths in states with more gun owners
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Covering 30 years (1981-2010) in all 50 states, the report shows a “robust correlation” between estimated levels of gun ownership and actual gun homicides at the state level, even when controlling for factors typically associated with homicides. For each 1 percentage point increase in the prevalence of gun ownership, the state firearm homicide rate increases by 0.9 percent, the authors found.
“Understanding the relationship between the prevalence of gun ownership and therefore the availability of guns, and firearm-related mortality is critical to guiding decisions regarding recently proposed measures to address firearm violence,” the study authors say
10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down
Myth #2: Guns don't kill people—people kill people.
Fact-check: People with more guns tend to kill more people—with guns. The states with the highest gun ownership rates have a gun murder rate 114% higher than those with the lowest gun ownership rates. Also, gun death rates tend to be higher in states with higher rates of gun ownership. Gun death rates are generally lower in states with restrictions such as assault-weapons bans or safe-storage requirements. Update: A recent study looking at 30 years of homicide data in all 50 states found that for every one percent increase in a state's gun ownership rate, there is a nearly one percent increase in its firearm homicide rate.
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Business as usual. Yup.
... We had some guidelines in the Gungeon.
Nobody wasted our time by posting NRA or SAF "research" and nobody wasted our time posting Brady or MAIG "research", since both were highly prejudiced sources. For the most part we even eschew studies that aren't peer reviewed like the crap Hemenway spews for dollars.
That's why you find us primarily using CDC and FBI reports and studies in our discussions. I guess some people are incapable of finding unbiased sources to base their POV on. Oh well, not much loss there.
We'll be sure to give your studies from Mother Jones et. al. all the credibility they, and you, deserve.
Now excuse us while we all follow up on the new DC Carry laws and the forthcoming Peruta decision.
Ah, yes the tide is turning! 
Seeking the facts on which to base opinions and decisions is the logical and scientific method. I often approach controversial issues by reading the ill founded propaganda from both sides to find the type(s) of scientific and statistical failures that are touted. This information is useful when reading other opinions based on 'supposed' research.
Those that have deep prejudices will cling to any type faulty data just to resist change and maintain some comfortable ways to qualify who the "bad guys" are.
It is easy to tell who the bad guys are.
...as the ones you're debating and discussing these issues with? 
Really?
They expose the very ugly underbelly of their movement and make us look brilliant and articulate by contrast.
We are not like many of them, on DU you'll see insults come at us far more often than from us.
On other sites, not so much, poo is flung in both directions, and I avoid those sites.
Sites I don't avoid include The Liberal Gun Club: http://www.theliberalgunclub.com/
Progressive Gun Owners: http://www.progressiveguns.org/
American Gun Culture Report: http://www.americangunculturereport.com/
Liberals Gun Corner: http://www.liberalsguncorner.com/
Liberals With Guns: http://www.liberalswithguns.com/
Shoot from the Left Hip: http://shootfromthelefthip.com/
Blue Steel Democrats: http://bluesteeldemocrats.blogspot.com/
Pink Pistols: http://www.pinkpistols.org/
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That's an exploding-head kind of statistic.
And that more people think that the opposite is true is not surprising.
The number of firearms available for sale to or possessed by U.S. civilians (about 310 million in 2009, according to the Congressional Research Service) has grown in recent years, and the 2009 per capita rate of one person per gun had roughly doubled since 1968. It is not clear, though, how many U.S. households own guns or whether that share has changed over time.
Great post, it should be its own OP.
I refuse to let bad data and propaganda float around unchallenged.
There is actually quite a bit at stake.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
