A Harvard study

[gejohnston]

90. a left wing libertarian similar to Nader

and peer reviewed doesn't mean flawless, it just means it was fit to print. This study missed the point because it was looking for guns. Rural areas have higher gun ownership in most places of the world. Rural areas have higher suicide rates, including places were gun ownership is equally rare or non existent such as Japan an and South Korea. While it did find a correlation, it did not find a cause.

I already explained to you why Guns and Ammo magazine sales was a poor proxy. One is changes in gun ownership would be among casual gun owners, who don't read gun magazines. Another was that GA wasn't measuring up to new competition, and the company had to buy back copies and give them to doctors offices and barber shops to please advertisers. They bought them from areas where sales were slow. Cook would have no way of knowing that at the time.
Why isn't this published in a criminology journal? Why haven't suicide or homicide (faster than it already does) rates drop in Australia?

Edit to add from a locked thread

How about, say, Canada?

The point is not that we should be profiling future criminals. The point is that the background check system alone does not do an adequate job of keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people.

It is true that you can commit murder with a rope or a pillow, but obviously, it is much easier to do with a gun. Which is way, as demonstrated by every other developed nation except for the US, when you restrict access to guns, you end up with less homicides.

When it comes to Mikey, who views the obese, any physical handicap, and anyone over 60 as among those who should not be allowed to own a gun, the USSR comparison is not paranoid. In Canada, convicted felons may legally own firearms as long as the trial judge doesn't issue a prohibition order and they are not on parole. Prohibition orders are usually issued for violent offences. Iverglas, of all people, ranted that or blanket ban would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Not being a Canadian lawyer, I have no idea. She said she was. Canadian laws in the 1930s, and the short lived long gun registry in the 1940s, were about immigrants. Their 1977 law was about political violence by Quebec separatists and Mohawks who wanted to take their country back from some developer wanting to build a golf course.
BTW, it is "fewer homicides" not "less homicides".