Study: Stand Your Ground Laws Increase Homicides

[DanTex]

11. What are you talking about?

And this is what happens when the NRA crowd is confronted with empirical evidence. As soon as anyone challenges your dogma, all you can come up with is smilies. The FBI statistics are just raw data. You are correct that crime rates have been dropping. But that alone doesn't imply anything about the effect of gun availability on homicide rates -- a lot of things affect crime rates. The conclusions of those two studies I linked to were arrived at by examining gun ownership trends and homicide trends, at the state and county levels, and also controlling for potential confounding factors.

And by the way, neither of those studies is by Gary Kleck. Also, neither of them has been discredited. If you have any substantial criticism of either, I'd love to hear it.