LOL... Wrote:
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> NoMo Wrote:
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> > In your search, look a the studies by the CDC
> in
> > 2013 and those by John Lott.
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> John Lott is a gun nut whose "work" has been
> debunked and dismissed as a bunch of biased,
> poorly supported junk. Hardly surprising that you
> morons would endorse such a fraud. Here is
> something from a FAR more credible source...
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> 1. Where there are more guns there is more
> homicide (literature review)
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> Our review of the academic literature found that a
> broad array of evidence indicates that gun
> availability is a risk factor for homicide, both
> in the United States and across high-income
> countries. Case-control studies, ecological
> time-series and cross-sectional studies indicate
> that in homes, cities, states and regions in the
> U.S., where there are more guns, both men and
> women are at a higher risk for homicide,
> particularly firearm homicide.
>
>
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-resear
> ch/guns-and-death/
The cite you give is a from the T H Chan school at Harvard, chaired by David Hemenway, who co-authored all the articles. Since you raise the issue of John Lott's biases and integrity, it's only fair to look at Dr. Hemenway's biases and integrity.
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David Hemenway wrote an op-ed that was originally published in the Los Angeles Times and then picked up in many other newspapers.
David Hemenway’s guest column last Sunday, “Scientists reach consensus on guns,” claimed a consensus on gun research based on a survey he conducted. But he conveniently fails to mention that another similar survey of peer-reviewed researchers was released two months ago.
That survey found the exact opposite. Gary Mauser, a professor who specializes in polling at Canada’s Simon Fraser University, conducted it for the Crime Prevention Research Center. Mauser surveyed 53 economists who published in the area over the last 15 years. Among the questions: an overwhelming number — 83 percent — noted guns are more likely to be used in self-defense than in crime. Further, 74 percent said concealed handgun laws reduce murder rates and 69 percent said guns in the home don’t cause more suicides. Also, 83 percent said gun-free zones attract criminals.
Hemenway fails to note that the people he surveyed only had to mention “firearms” in their research. They didn’t have to actually conduct empirical work on guns. There were also problems in the recording of his responses. For instance, I was supposedly one of the researchers surveyed. Yet, my responses weren’t recorded. When I emailed Hemenway about this technical problem, my emails were ignored.
— John R. Lott, Jr., president, Crime Prevention Research Center, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
More information on our survey is available here (the original survey), here (an op-ed at Fox News by John Lott (note that unlike Hemenway, Lott doesn’t hide the other poll)), and here (some news coverage in the Washington Times where David Hemenway was interviewed about our survey). For a comparison of our survey results for criminologists and economists see here (media coverage of it here, here, here, and here).
In addition, there were other mistakes in Henenway’s op-ed. For example, while he claims that 150 people answered the survey, some responses are as low as 85 or 96. The numbers are less than 122 for all but two. The 150 responses was true for only one question, but he makes it look like that was true for all of them.
The big difference between the CPRC surveys and those by Hemenway is that the CPRC surveys are limited to academics who have published peer-reviewed empirical research, to be included in the Hemenway surveys academics merely had to mention the terms “firearms” or “guns.”
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https://crimeresearch.org/2015/05/correcting-the-record-on-david-hemenways-claim-that-academics-support-gun-control/
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