Heads Up! New JAMA study released tomorrow

[Bartholomew Roberts]

From the Yahoo Gun Control board:

"There's a report coming out tomorrow in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It says that Brady does nothing to stop crime. Imagine that.
But J.A.M.A. is spinning like crazy. There's an editorial right next to the study that says that this proves that more gun control is needed."

We need to look for this report so we can pass it on.

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n5/full/joc91749.html

This study is by anti-rights authors Phillip Cook and Jens Ludwig. A previous study they did on DGUs found 1.5 million DGUs/year. They must be tired of having all of their data contradict their agenda but kudos for reporting it honestly (even though they add a few paragraphs of qualifications).

"Results Changes in rates of homicide and suicide for treatment and control states were not significantly different, except for firearm suicides among persons aged 55 years or older (-0.92 per 100,000; 95% confidence interval [CI], -1.43 to -0.42). This reduction in suicides for persons aged 55 years or older was much stronger in states that had instituted both waiting periods and background checks (-1.03 per 100,000; 95% CI, -1.58 to -0.47) than in states that only changed background check requirements (-0.17 per 100,000; 95% CI, -1.09 to 0.75).

Conclusions Based on the assumption that the greatest reductions in fatal violence would be within states that were required to institute waiting periods and background checks, implementation of the Brady Act appears to have been associated with reductions in the firearm suicide rate for persons aged 55 years or older but not with reductions in homicide rates or overall suicide rates. However, the pattern of implementation of the Brady Act does not permit a reliable analysis of a potential effect of reductions in the flow of guns from treatment-state gun dealers into secondary markets."