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jimmy the one

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12. more guns more crime & more lies
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 12:57 PM
Nov 2014

ggjohn: Your missing my point completely, Stanford law professor John Donohue is saying that more guns=more crimes, but according to the FBI's UCR, that's not true at all.

.. Donahue is not contending crime didn't fall, he's contending that lax CCW laws caused higher rates of aggravated asslt, robb, rape & murder, than existed prior to states passing such laws. Donahue's data does not necessarily run from early 90's to now (when violent crime declined), but from when a state passed a shall issue ccw law.
Learn to comprehend better so as to not footstick.

"The totality of the evidence based on educated judgments about the best statistical models suggests that right-to-carry laws are associated with substantially higher rates" of aggravated assault, robbery, rape and murder, Donohue said.. The evidence suggests that right-to-carry laws are associated with an 8% increase in the incidence of aggravated assault .. He says this number is likely a floor, and that some statistical methods show an increase of 33% in aggravated assaults involving a firearm after the passage of right-to-carry laws. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/14/more-guns-more-crime-new-research-debunks-a-central-thesis-of-the-gun-rights-movement/

ggjohn: You say I'm not interpreting them correctly? Then why don't you interpret them for me and show where I and the FBI made our mistake.

Look above.

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