"Zero correlation between state homicide rate and state gun laws"

[chemist]

***My apologies for duplicating an existing thread - I've been away too long.***
https://www.northwestfirearms.com/threads/state-gun-laws-vs-homicide-rates.206611/


Here is a fact-based, carefully worded, nonjudgmental analysis from the Washington Post which quantitatively demonstrates that there is no correlation between guns laws and homicide rates at the state level.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tween-state-homicide-rate-and-state-gun-laws/

The correlation between the homicide rate and Brady score in all 51 jurisdictions is +.032 (on a scale of -1 to +1), which means that states with more gun restrictions on average have very slightly higher homicide rates, though the tendency is so small as to be essentially zero.

The thesis is that gun-control laws may reduce gun homicide rates, but not overall homicide rates, just as they do not reduce the overall suicide rate - only the gun-suicide rate.
http://www.nap.edu/read/10881/chapter/9#192

Some gun control policies may reduce the number of gun suicides, but they have not yet been shown to reduce the overall risk of suicide in any population.

Evidence like this of course has no effect on those who are already fully committed to confiscation, their logic being that we only need even more of the same failed policies to make it work this time. So I'm not about to post the foregoing links to the Bloomberg site; it's our duty to stick to fact-based argument, and let them do what they will.

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