MaverickNH
NES Member
That gun laws don’t stop violent crime, especially mass shootings, remains surprising to many liberals. They’re always looking for that right combination of laws, enacted for decades, in all states, to address criminal intent.
”Using the latest difference-in-differences analyses and fixed-effects negative binomial regressions, we tested nine gun-related policies [Right-to-Carry, Constitutional Carry, Under-21 ban, LCM ban, State AWB, Safe Storage, Permit-to-Purchase, UBC, ERPO) and four traditional crime-control policies. Despite the findings in previous studies that permit to purchase laws and large capacity magazine bans may be effective, we find that neither these, nor the other policies investigated in this study can be shown to be effective in reducing the number of people killed in mass public shootings. This result might be expected because criminals who are willing to commit the most heinous crime and who are also willing to die in the commission of that crime, are unlikely to be deterred by a safe storage law, for example. On the other hand, there is evidence that increasing the number of places where ordinary citizens are allowed to carry concealed weapons could reduce the number of mass shooting fatalities.”