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Right-to-Carry Gun Laws Linked to Increase in Violent Crime

posted by n1 on Monday November 17 2014, @10:34PM   
from the statistical-significance dept.

AnonTechie writes an article from stanford.edu:

Stanford research reaffirms that right-to-carry gun laws are connected with an increase in violent crime. This debunks – with the latest empirical evidence – earlier claims that more guns actually lead to less crime.

While there is no federal law on concealed-carry permits, all 50 states have passed laws allowing citizens to carry certain concealed firearms in public, either without a permit or after obtaining a permit from local government or law enforcement.

Recently published scholarship updates the empirical evidence on this issue. Stanford law Professor John J. Donohue III, Stanford law student Abhay Aneja and doctoral student Alexandria Zhang from Johns Hopkins University were the co-authors of the study.

[Abstract]: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2443681

• Re:p-hacking without even finding values 0.05 (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday November 19 2014, @12:44AM

  by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday November 19 2014, @12:44AM (#117465) Homepage

  > > 15 of the 16 academic members of the NRC panel essentially concluded that the existing research was inadequate to conclude that RTC laws increased or decreased crime. One member of the panel
  
  > tip their hands in the last sentence by stating the outlier's position first, then getting to "the other 15."
  
  Erm, but they got to the other 15 in the sentence before. Does "first" mean something different to you?

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