Author of Gun Control-’Demolishing’ Study Also ‘Proved’ Forced Ultrasound Laws ‘Work’

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There’s a new study being reported on and touted by conservatives that — as my colleague Noah Rothman describes it — supposedly “demolishes” everything for which we sad little gun control advocates stand.

The study supports longstanding gun advocate talking points about how arming everyone makes the world safer, and is being presented as some sort of neutral scientific assessment. Before anyone in the mainstream media is tempted to fall for this con, they should know two things: It seems like no one reporting on this study has fully read its contents; and its author, Mark Gius, has something of a right-wing “tell.”

Breitbart calls it a “Quinnipiac Study” because the author is a professor of economics at Quinnipiac University, but the study is published in the journal Applied Economics Letters. The reason I say no one reporting on Gius’ study — “An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates” — is that no one seems to quote anything but the study’s abstract:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/author-of-gun-control-demolishing-study-also-proved-forced-ultrasound-laws-work/