STUNNER! Harvard study concludes stricter gun laws do NOT reduce murder and suicide - PPSIMMONS EXCLUSIVE!

From the study (see link below to read the whole essay)

WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE

MURDER AND SUICIDE?

A REVIEWOF INTERNATIONAL AND

SOME DOMESTIC EVIDENCE

DON B.KATES*

AND GARYMAUSER**

CONCLUSION

This Article has reviewed a significant amount of evidence

from a wide variety of international sources. Each individual

portion of evidence is subject to cavil―at the very least the

general objection that the persuasiveness of social scientific

evidence cannot remotely approach the persuasiveness of

conclusions in the physical sciences. Nevertheless, the bur�

den of proof rests on the proponents of the more guns equal

more death and fewer guns equal less death mantra, espe�

cially since they argue public policy ought to be based on

that mantra.149 To bear that burden would at the very least

require showing that a large number of nations with more

guns have more death and that nations that have imposed

stringent gun controls have achieved substantial reductions

in criminal violence (or suicide). But those correlations are

not observed when a large number of nations are compared

across the world.

And...

Over a decade ago, Professor Brandon Centerwall of the Uni�

versity ofWashington undertook an extensive, statistically sophis�

ticated study comparing areas in the United States and Canada to

determine whether Canada's more restrictive policies had better

contained criminal violence. When he published his results it was

with the admonition:

If you are surprised by [our] finding[s], so [are we]. [We] did

not begin this research with any intent to "exonerate" hand�

guns, but there itis―a negative finding, to be sure, but a nega�

tive finding is nevertheless a positive contribution. It directs us

where not to aim public health resources.

Read entire study here: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

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