Take a look at the states that have the weakest legislative strength and then compare to the mortality rates. This is for overall as well as for suicides and homicides individually. See a pattern? Policymic.com offers an excellent summary of the study if you don't want to wade through all the data from the link above.
Of course, further studies are needed to clarify the cause and effect relationship between these two variables but there is a connection which is not what the Gun Cult would have us believe.
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Gun control advocates may want to hold off on popping champagne corks to celebrate, however. The study did not conclude that there is any cause-and-effect relationship between gun ownership and gun homicides. The same was true of a similar study, released by Boston Children's Hospital earlier this year, leading even Garen Wintemute--one of the most anti-gun public health researchers in America--to say "Policy makers can draw no conclusions from this study."
Additionally, over the 1981-2010 period considered by the new study--during which restrictions on carrying firearms and many other gun control laws were eliminated or ameliorated at the federal, state and local levels, and the number of privately owned guns in the United States rose by about 150 million--the U.S. firearm murder rate declined 48 percent.
Yes, but GuardDuck, you're talking murder rates and the subject is "gun deaths". Since 2/3's of "gun deaths" are suicides, that means Markadelphia must win by the rules of debate. And Markadelphian math and stats. And liberal quantities of alcohol. Which are required for Markadelphia Math.
Speaking of winning the debate, I took a look at debate.org just for grins. That place is pathetic, even by M's meager standards.
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