curl-6 said:
Guns bans successful in lowering both gun homicide and gun suicide rates in Australia: http://andrewleigh.org/pdf/GunBuyback_media.pdf "their findings discount a previous study in the British Journal of Criminology in 2006, which found the buyback had no impact on either gun homicide or suicide rates." "models used in that study [the ones that found no reduction] were not appropriate and results were inconsistent." |
Have you read the actual study or are you just supporting it because it fits in view with what you want to believe?
I noted you quoted the press release instead of the study in a journal or something.
Why it's often discounted?
They use gun buyback rate per capita in each state... without controlling for number of guns in each state.
As opposed to gun buyback rate as a percentage of gun ownership.
I think it's self explinaitory why that's a problem?
Additionally, another flaw in their data as they note. More Urban areas are expected to have higher buyback rates.
Urban areas also happen to be where violent crime rates have been dropping most... more or less world wide.
The first studies control for this. This study... does not.
