Missouri used to require a permit to buy a gun, this was repealed in 2007 and the enemy is now claiming this has led to more murders.

The team followed the consequences of the State of Missouri repealing its permit-to-purchase handgun law in 2007.

The law had required purchasers to be vetted by the local sheriff and to receive a licence before buying a gun.

Reporting soon in the Journal of Urban Health, the researchers will say that the repeal resulted in an immediate spike in gun violence and murders.

The study links the abandonment of the background check to an additional 60 or so murders occurring per year in Missouri between 2008 and 2012.

Really? So are we to assume suddenly criminals bought guns because they didn’t need a permit from the sheriff?

“Coincident exactly with the policy change, there was an immediate upward trajectory to the homicide rates in Missouri,” said Prof Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.

“That upward trajectory did not happen with homicides that did not involve guns; it did not occur to any neighbouring state; the national trend was doing the opposite – it was trending downward; and it was not specific to one or two localities – it was, for the most part, state-wide,” he told BBC News.

Pure coincidence, obviously murder is an individual act, it’s not like they get together and decide how to murder people.

The team said it took account of changes that occurred in policing levels and incarceration rates, trends in burglaries, and statistically controlled for other possible confounding factors such as shifts in unemployment and poverty.

What was stark, added Prof Webster, was the rise in the number of handguns that subsequently found their way into the hands of criminals.

The team counted a doubling of handguns shortly after sale being recovered from scenes of crimes or from criminals.

Yet did they count where the guns came from? What year where they purchased? No, they did not.

“This study is compelling confirmation that weaknesses in firearm laws lead to deaths from gun violence,” said Prof Webster.

The Johns Hopkins researcher was participating in a discussion here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

The theme was “science-based strategies for reducing gun violence”.

America currently has more than 300 million handguns in circulation. But the issue of gun control remains a hugely contentious one.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26222578

You mean the Johns Hopkins BLOOMBERG School of Public Health, I’m sorry BBC, but an anti-gun study from them is like an anti-black study from the Ku Klux Klan.

Maybe you should fire your “science” correspondent since he’s obviously unscientific and extremely biased.

Here’s what the anti-gun Nazis didn’t tell you:

Missouri Woman Fires at and Hits 1 of 3 Would be Home Invaders

Missouri Man Shoots Armed Robber

Would Be Street Robber Ends Up Being Shot in Head, Chest, Arms and Legs by His Victim

I wouldn’t be surprised if these are the people the Hopkins bastards are counting are as gun homicides.

I can’t wait for John Lott to rip this “study” to pieces.