{"id":64970,"date":"2016-10-17T09:58:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T13:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=64970"},"modified":"2016-10-17T09:58:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T08:17:27","slug":"epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Fail: New Study &#8216;Proves&#8217; Link Between Weak Gun Laws and Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_64972\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gun-Show.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence\" title=\"Epic Fail: New Study 'Proves' Link Between Weak Gun Laws and Gun Violence\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64972\" title=\"Epic Fail: New Study 'Proves' Link Between Weak Gun Laws and Gun Violence\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gun-Show-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: John Locher \/ AP Images)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gun-Show-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gun-Show-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gun-Show.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: John Locher \/ AP Images<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.americanprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/11100940\/AmericaUnderFire-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence\" title=\"Epic Fail: New Study 'Proves' Link Between Weak Gun Laws and Gun Violence\">Center for American Progress<\/a> released a study last week that suggests a link between \u201ctough\u201d gun laws and a reduction in \u201cgun violence.\u201d Right on cue, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/12\/us\/gun-control-national-rifle-association.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence\" title=\"Epic Fail: New Study 'Proves' Link Between Weak Gun Laws and Gun Violence\">New York Times<\/a> ran a story on the left-wing think tank\u2019s findings, assuring its readers that \u201ca growing body of evidence\u2026 supports the link between gun restrictions and a reduction in violence.\u201d There\u2019s just one problem: according to the researchers themselves, their findings don\u2019t prove anything.<\/p>\n<p>The study uses a third-party metric to assign each state a score based on the \u201cstrength\u201d of its gun laws. It then considers rates of \u201cgun violence\u201d in those states using a variety of categories including homicides, suicides, accidental deaths, etc. After compiling the data, the study concludes that the ten states with the strongest gun laws have lower rates of \u201cgun crime\u201d than the ten states with the weakest laws.<\/p>\n<p>And voila! Restrictive gun laws keep people from killing other people (and themselves) with guns.<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly.<\/p>\n<p>According to the researchers themselves, \u201cthere are an interconnected web of social and economic issues that can have an impact on rates of violence in a community, such as persistent poverty, lack of employment and educational opportunities, and a breakdown in the police-community relationship that imperils community safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, lots of factors affect how much violence a state experiences in a given year. Those factors would have to be considered in tandem with gun laws before any real conclusions could be drawn.<\/p>\n<p>And the researchers admit as much. Hidden in a short paragraph towards the end of the study, they include this statement: \u201cIn this regard, correlation does not prove causation and this report does not conclude that gun violence is solely explained by weak gun laws. Nonetheless, a strong association, measured by the correlation coefficient, does suggest a potential causal relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A \u201c<em>potential <\/em>causal relationship.\u201d The Center for American Progress can\u2019t say that strong gun laws lead to a reduction in crime because they simply don\u2019t know. They\u2019ve complied two sets of statistics and placed them together in the same report, but they haven\u2019t managed to prove that one causes the other.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a statistician, so I\u2019ll leave the technical analysis to someone who knows what they\u2019re talking about. (I do have questions about how they determined which states have \u201cstrong\u201d and \u201cweak\u201d gun laws, and why they didn\u2019t consider the remaining 30 states between the extremes.) But even reading this report as a layman, I found so many backtracking and conditional statements that I had a hard time taking it seriously. The Center\u2019s study strikes me as more of a political stunt than serious research, designed to fool people who don\u2019t understand the difference between correlation and causation.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the principle still holds true: laws target the law-abiding. Criminals will carry loaded firearms whether state law permits them or not. The same holds true for universal background checks and \u201cassault weapon\u201d bans. Restricting the right to self-defense doesn\u2019t make anyone safer\u2014it simply makes the law-abiding more vulnerable to criminal action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for American Progress released a study last week that suggests a link between \u201ctough\u201d gun laws and a reduction in \u201cgun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":64972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,25,216,240],"tags":[132,469,607,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-gun-control","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Epic Fail: New Study &#039;Proves&#039; Link Between Weak Gun Laws and Gun Violence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Center for American Progress released a study last week that suggests a link between \u201ctough\u201d gun laws and a reduction in \u201cgun violence.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Epic Fail: New Study &#039;Proves&#039; Link Between Weak Gun Laws and Gun Violence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Center for American Progress released a study last week that suggests a link between \u201ctough\u201d gun laws and a reduction in \u201cgun violence.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-17T13:58:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-20T08:17:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gun-Show.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jordan Michaels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jordan Michaels\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jordan Michaels\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a21614cb8c2dd3512bbbaa26c54521ad\"},\"headline\":\"Epic Fail: New Study &#8216;Proves&#8217; Link Between Weak Gun Laws and Gun Violence\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-10-17T13:58:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-20T08:17:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":549,\"commentCount\":12,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/epic-fail-new-study-proves-link-weak-gun-laws-gun-violence\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/10\\\/Gun-Show.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buzz\",\"Gun Control\",\"News\",\"R2KBA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"2nd Amendment - R2KBA\",\"Authors\",\"Current Events\",\"S.H. 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