New study from Duke University finds gun control laws have no impact on homicide rates

I'm sorry to have to tell you gun grabbing leftists [just kidding, I'm not sorry] but a new study by the Duke University School of Medicine [aka Club Med] performed a study that found gun control laws have zero impact on homicide rates. Zilch. Zero. Nada.

This longitudinal study considered both suicide and homicide rates involving children below the age of 18 between the years 2009 through 2020. Mortality data provided by the CDC was used and a database of state-level firearm laws maintained by the Rand Corporation. Thirty-six gun control laws were examined to show the impact.

The laws included background checks, mandatory waiting periods, "stand your ground" laws, safe storage provisions, and the left's favorite, Red Flag laws where Big Brother can be your neighbor.

In the 12-year period of the study, there were 6,735 suicides and 10,278 homicides reported that involved a firearm.

The authors stated that they examined “suicide deaths by all firearms, including intentional self-harm by handguns only, intentional self-harm by rifles, shotguns, or large firearms only, and intentional self-harm by other or unspecified firearms, as well as homicide deaths for the same firearm types in each state.”

They did not use accidental deaths by firearms because there are myriad ways to die by accidents that have nothing to do with firearms.

What they found was that there was a small difference made regarding mandatory storage laws of firearms as it impacts on suicides. Evidently, it gives the person a modicum of time to possibly change their mind and go on living. But perhaps better education and tax incentives for gun safes would have gotten the same good results.

The reason that homicide rates were not affected is because the large majority of guns used in crimes of any kind are obtained illegally or are bought by people with no criminal record who would not be prevented from purchasing a firearm, just like they would not be denied purchasing a razor blade to slit their wrist, or a car to "do a Thelma and Louise."

There has not been one case that I can recall where stricter gun laws would have prevented a shooting.

So more gun control, even buy-backs [aka: gun confiscation] would not put a dent in homicides and suicides.

If people are so concerned about people dying before their time, perhaps they should consider the abortion explosion in the country, which has dramatically increased after Roe v. Wade was ended.

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