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| Bloomberg columnist explains why gun control research is worthless |
| 2022-04-05 |
For information. [BearingArms] It’s a wonderful stroke of irony that a guy whose byline appears on the eponymously-named news site of the gun control lobby’s biggest sugar daddy has delivered one of the most devastating blows against the idea that Science has proven the effectiveness and need for more gun control laws. In a new video from Reason’s Justin Monticello risk analyst, statistician, and Bloomberg columnist Aaron Brown lays to waste the tired tropes of politicians who claim that "evidence shows" the urgent adoption of gun or magazine bans, or that "studies show" gun homicides dropped by 20, 30, or 40% after the passage of a "common sense gun safety" measure. How? By taking a look at the studies themselves.He’s not the first to do so. Brown begins by using a recent RAND analysis of gun research, which the corporation used to try to determine what the science actually says about the effectiveness of various gun control laws. What RAND found is that out of 27,900 pieces of research, just 123 of them displayed enough academic and scientific rigor to be taken seriously. Brown says that the problem is actually even worse, and that virtually none of the 123 projects that RAND deemed worthy of examining can be trusted to tell us anything of note.. and not just statistical noise. We took a look at the significance of the 123 rigorous empirical studies and what they actually say about the efficacy of gun control laws. |
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