Research Proves Gun Control Is Wrong

Above, a CZ Pistole Modell 27 7.65. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The Washington Post has posted an opinion piece on gun control by a former gun control supporter who, as a statistician, discovered that what she believed was totally wrong.

Leah Libresco begins her article with:

Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes and all the other measures that could make guns less deadly. 

Then, my colleagues and I at FiveThirtyEight spent three months analyzing all 33,000 lives ended by guns each year in the United States, and I wound up frustrated in a whole new way. We looked at what interventions might have saved those people, and the case for the policies I’d lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence. The best ideas left standing were narrowly tailored interventions to protect subtypes of potential victims, not broad attempts to limit the lethality of guns.

This is one article that should be shared, especially to liberals.

To read the full article, go here.