re: Will all those gun sales after Sandy Hook, crime rates should rise, right?

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Gun homicides have been going down since the Brady Bill was passed. Go figure.

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while teh timing may have a correlation, Congress commissioned a study that showed the brady bill had no effects

pretty much all crime started falling in the mid-90s, after a dramatic rise starting in the mid-80s (but it had been increasing since the 70s). there are multiple theories for this all (and the popular "abortion" theory has been pretty much debunked, SO DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT)

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Keeping them in the hands of responsible gun owners' hands is

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keeping drunks from behind steering wheels will save tens of thousands of lives....



ignition breathalyzers for everyone!

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Gun homicides have been going down since the Brady Bill was passed. Go figure.

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You do realize correlation does not equal causation, right?

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Context In February 1994, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act established a nationwide requirement that licensed firearms dealers observe a waiting period and initiate a background check for handgun sales. The effects of this act have not been analyzed.

Objective To determine whether implementation of the Brady Act was associated with reductions in homicide and suicide rates.

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Results Changes in rates of homicide and suicide for treatment and control states were not significantly different, except for firearm suicides among persons aged 55 years or older (-0.92 per 100,000; 95% confidence interval [CI], -1.43 to -0.42). This reduction in suicides for persons aged 55 years or older was much stronger in states that had instituted both waiting periods and background checks (-1.03 per 100,000; 95% CI, -1.58 to -0.47) than in states that only changed background check requirements (-0.17 per 100,000; 95% CI, -1.09 to 0.75).

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