Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The study, published in The Lancet, used a cross-sectional, state-level dataset relating to a host of topics associated with firearm mortality including gun ownership and even unemployment from across the U.S. to examine the relationship between recorded gun deaths and gun-control legislation. The study found that some laws, such as those that restrict gun access to children through locks and age restrictions, were simply ineffective while others, such as the stand-your-ground law that allows individuals to use deadly force in self-defense, actually increase gun-related deaths significantly. According to the study's model, a federal law expanding background checks for all gun purchases could reduce the national gun death rate by 57%, lowering it from 10.35 to 4.46 per 100,000 people while background checks for all ammunition purchases could lower the rate by 81% to 1.99 per 100,000 and firearm identification could reduce it by 83% to 1.81 per 100,000. If the federal government implemented all three laws, the scholars predict that the overall national rate of firearm deaths would drop by over 90% to 0.16 per 100,000.

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Re:Yeah, um, not so much

[sg_oneill]

As you've noted, Mr. Webster runs the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healthâ(TM)s Center for Gun Policy and Research; his job is basically to fund and promote anti-gun research, so when Daniel Webster comes out and says a [/snip]

Whilst I realise Slashdots taken somewhat of an anti-intellectual nose-dive lately (as evidenced by a preponderance of anti climate science crackpottery), I believe the term you are looking for is "gun research", not "anti-gun research". Its a university research lab. It looks at the numbers and deduces what the statistics say.