Sangamon
County Rifle Association
Right Reason on Second Amendment Rights
Springfield, Illinois
Right Reason on Second Amendment Rights
Springfield, Illinois
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Sangamon
County Rifle Association
Right Reason on Second Amendment Rights Springfield, Illinois |
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 Futility of Gun Control Laws Jim Butler President SCRA In December of 2004 the National Academy of Science issued a 328-page report on gun control laws. Incredibly, the academy's panel couldn't identify any benefits of decades long efforts to reduce crime and injury by restricting gun ownership. From the assault-weapons ban to the Brady Act to one-gun-a-month restrictions to gun locks, nothing worked. And this was from a panel set up during the Clinton administration which was loaded with members who favored gun control. The Academy's report is based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, a survey that covered 80 different gun-control measures and some of its own empirical work, they couldn't find a single gun-control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents. The panel didn't get the results that they wanted so their conclusion was to study it some more, presumably to get the results they wanted. It seems that the National Academy is completely unable to separate politics from its own analyzes and accept the results of its own study for what they are. Too much of taxpayers hard earned money has already been spent by government and academia on useless research to justify gun control measures that don't work, and can actually be counter-productive in reducing crime, suicide and gun accidents. As I See it index Return to SCRA Home Page |