Quinnipiac Study: Concealed Carry Results in Fewer Murders

[CaseyJones]

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/quinnipiac-study-concealed-carry-results-fewer-murders

In what will certainly be gun control advocates' new least favorite study, Quinnipiac University’s Mark Gius found not only that states with restrictive concealed weapons laws had higher gun-related murder rates, but that assault weapons bans had no significant impact on murder rates at the state level.

The study by economist Mark Gius, published in Applied Economics Letters, sought to “determine the effects of state-level assault weapons bans and concealed weapons laws on state murder rates,” using extensive data from a thirty-year period, 1980-2009. In the abstract for the study, Gius sums up the findings:

"Using data for the period 1980 to 2009 and controlling for state and year fixed effects, the results of the present study suggest that states with restrictions on the carrying of concealed weapons had higher gun-related murder rates than other states. It was also found that assault weapons bans did not significantly affect murder rates at the state level. These results suggest that restrictive concealed weapons laws may cause an increase in gun-related murders at the state level."

Gius notes that these results are consistent with previous research, specifically citing the work by John R. Lott and David B. Mustard.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2013.854294#.UsblyNK1y-2

 

[Ronin Truth]

No murders witnessed yet. So, I guess it works.

 

[Athan]

Awesome! Thanks!

 

[Anti Federalist]

dupe

 

[Anti Federalist]

Violent crime is at historically record low levels.

One primary reason: the millions of new weapons and CCW holders all across the country.

 

[navy-vet]

Awesome! Thanks!

ditto

 

[NewRightLibertarian]

Violent crime is at historically record low levels.

One primary reason: the millions of new weapons and CCW holders all across the country.

But we need to help Americans by forcibly disarming them when cops might respond for hours! That'll fix the crime rate real good

 

[jdcole]

In other news: water wet, sky blue.

 

[Murray N Rothbard]

I avoid these studies because they overstate the deterrent effect of guns and ignore that, primarily, gun laws tend to be strict in areas with high violent crime because stricter gun laws are the go-to liberal "solution" to high violent crime. Meanwhile crime just continues as usual.

I'd say the violent criminals pay much less attention to gun grabbers than the gun grabbers pay to violent criminals.

 

[ghengis86]

I avoid these studies because they overstate the deterrent effect of guns and ignore that, primarily, gun laws tend to be strict in areas with high violent crime because stricter gun laws are the go-to liberal "solution" to high violent crime. Meanwhile crime just continues as usual.

I'd say the violent criminals pay much less attention to gun grabbers than the gun grabbers pay to violent criminals.

While I don't discount the fact that more guns = less crime in general, I think I agree with your statement to some degree. The order is usually violent crime rate goes up --> stricter gun laws enacted. I'd like to see if there's data on an area with a high violent crime rate where reducing gun restrictions led to a drop in crime (I'm sure that's out there).

Violent crime is more dependent on socioeconomic factors than the availability of guns (though not complete separate either).

It will be interesting to see how Wisconsin's and Illinois' recent adoption of CC laws impact crime rates over the next 5-10 years (restrictive as they are).