A video and an article on recent gun control research.
Study: Gun control laws do not reduce violent crime
Jan. 06, 2014 - 7:24 - Professor Mark Gius explains research
Fox News vid at link below
http://video.foxnews.com/v/301846640...#sp=show-clips
More gun laws, more murder? Quinnipiac prof’s study suggests it
By Joe Amarante, New Haven Register
Days after a new Connecticut gun-control law spurred long lines of people trying to register firearms deemed to be “assault weapons,” a study from a Quinnipiac University professor has found that bans on assault weapons on the state level had no significant effect on murder rates around the country. And it also found that states with more restrictive concealed weapons laws had higher gun-related murder rates on average than states with less restricted concealed weapons.
But the study’s author says more research is needed on the issue before lawmakers run with its conclusions.
Mark Gius, an economics professor at Quinnipiac for two decades, admitted he was a little bit flabbergasted Monday at the response his study has been getting since it was published in the November issue of the academic journal, “Applied Economics Letters.” He had just returned Monday afternoon from Hartford, where he appeared in a segment on Fox News Channel about the study.
“I’ve actually done other research on gun control and gun ownership,” Gius said. “So it’s kind of amazing that, for some reason, this article really took off.”
Gius, a 51-year-old Democrat, said economics professors often do research on policy issues and laws on crime and guns “to see if they have the desired impact.” His topic was his own idea, not funded by any company, he said. But he said he’s half-regretting it, given the number of media people who want to talk about it.
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http://www.nhregister.com/general-ne...dy-suggests-it