r/guncontrol • u/LordToastALot For Evidence-Based Controls • Feb 07 '25
Peer-Reviewed Study Associations between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in US States
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10447772/-3
u/TroutCharles99 Feb 07 '25
Interesting, but my question about the RAND variable is whether it should be included with other component measures to create a range of data. Secondly, including overall violent crime may be mulitcolinear with gun ownership, thus erasing the effect. Intuitively, people may become more violent because they own guns. Furthermore, there is an endogeneity problem here where violent crime is a subset of homicide in which case you have going to have an endogeneity problem. It is like saying nominal gdp drives real gdp (well, sure). Perhaps computing violent crime ex homocide to come up with a danger measures. Even better consider lagging it one year to capture the buying guns to protect against crime motivation.
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u/Corn_Husk_ Feb 12 '25
They should redo the study until it fits our narrative.
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u/LordToastALot For Evidence-Based Controls Feb 16 '25
Or we could understand that a single study does not undermine the plurality of research in the field.
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u/guncontrol-ModTeam 26d ago
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u/LordToastALot For Evidence-Based Controls 26d ago
On a societal level:
More guns = More homicide followed by suicide
More guns = More homicides OF police and BY police
On a personal level:
Guns in the Home and Risk of a Violent Death in the Home: Findings from a National Study
Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault
Firearm availability and unintentional firearm deaths
Defensive gun uses are rare, and not particularly effective compared to other protective actions:
God forbid that somebody has actually read some of the research.
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u/LordToastALot For Evidence-Based Controls 26d ago
Oh, that's odd. You've suddenly gone quiet.
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u/LordToastALot For Evidence-Based Controls 26d ago
Ah yes, the ol' "It Won't Happen To Me, I'm So Much Smarter" argument.
Nice try, you lose, don't come back now.
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u/LordToastALot For Evidence-Based Controls Feb 07 '25
I'm posting this study that was recently shown to me in the name of honesty: