Tell me it isn't so!
WASHINGTON – While it is an article of faith among gun-control proponents that government restrictions on firearms reduces violence and crime, two new U.S. studies could find no evidence to support such a conclusion.
The National Academy of Sciences issued a 328-page report based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, a survey of 80 different gun-control laws and some of its own independent study. In short, the panel could find no link between restrictions on gun ownership and lower rates of crime, firearms violence or even accidents with guns.
The panel was established during the Clinton administration and all but one of its members were known to favor gun control.
That had to chap their hides. A bunch of gun control freaks who can't prove that gun control lowers crime, despite their best efforts. They could have saved themselves some trouble and just read John Lott's book.
posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 2:45 PM