Settled Science
By Mitch Berg
Via h John Hinderaker at Power Line, still more empirical evidence that “shall issue” laws reduce violent crime, including/especially gun crime:
The CCW dummy variable is significant and positive, but the assault weapons ban is insignificant. Given that the average gun-related murder rate over the period in question was 3.44, the results of the present study indicate that states with more restrictive CCW laws had gun-related murder rates that were 10% higher. In addition, the Federal assault weapons ban is significant and positive, indicating that murder rates were 19.3% higher when the Federal ban was in effect. These results corroborate the findings of Lott and Mustard (1997). These results suggest that, even after controlling for unobservable state and year fixed effects, limiting the ability to carry concealed weapons may cause murder rates to increase.
I urge you to read the study. Long story short: “shall issue” laws, at the very worst, have no negative effect on crime, and may reduce it. “Assault weapons” bans, on the other hand, are worthless.
Yet again.
April 9th, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Mitch, not to be a nag to you, but if assault weapons bans are positively correlated with a higher rate of crime, they are not worthless. They are positively harmful. If only they were worthless.
April 9th, 2014 at 4:27 pm
Powerline is not a reliable source.
And did you hear about some other Conservative that did something bad? Proof that the Koch brothers are evil.
Neener Neener, Dog Gone. Beat cha to it!