Harvard Research Shows ‘Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People’
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
09/02/2013
In an inconvenient truth moment for the anti-gun lobby, Harvard’s Don Kates and Gary Mauser expose the facts behind gun control and violent crime. While not the first time we have discussed this awkward reality, the depth of the academics’ datasets and the findings are unquestionable that there is in fact a “negative correlation” between violence and gun ownership. As they state, “where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest,” concluding that “The burden of proof rests on the proponents of the more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death mantra, especially since they argue public policy ought to be based on that mantra… But those correlations are not observed when a large number of nations are compared across the world.”
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