“The magnitude of this association is relatively low” — meaning it’s junk.
The media release is below.
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Study finds consistent link between violent crime and concealed-carry gun permits
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
INDIANAPOLIS — The first study to find a significant relationship between firearm crime and subsequent applications for, and issuance of, concealed-carry gun permits has been published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
The paper, “Firearm Violence and Effects on Concealed Gun Carrying: Large Debate and Small Effects,” found there is a consistent link between violent crime — especially crimes that involve guns — and an increase in the number of people issued carry permits over two time periods examined in the study, said Jeremy Carter, an assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
While the link is consistent and robust, Carter said the magnitude of this association is relatively low.
“It seems the level of debate surrounding violence and concealed carrying far outweighs any observed effects,” Carter and his co-author, Michael Binder, an assistant professor at the University of North Florida, conclude. “We acknowledge that other factors are just as — if not more — important and highlight the need for more refined research to parse out any plausible relationships.”
“From a theoretical perspective, the finding of firearm crime as a predictor of concealed carrying is the first such demonstrable relationship and provides evidence that should solicit further investigation,” the study says.
The research focuses on county-level data from all 67 counties in Florida, which has issued more concealed-carry permits than any other state. As of November 2015, there were 1.6 million valid concealed-carry permits in Florida.
The study measures violent crime using the Uniform Crime Reporting index offenses of violent crime, including homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. The two time periods examined by the study are 2005 to 2012 and 1996 to 2012.
Theoretically, nonviolent crime receives noticeably less media attention and does not carry the heightened degree of sensitivity that comes with firearm violence. As such, there could be unique differences between firearm and non-firearm violence that might influence people’s decision to want to carry a gun, says Carter.
Given the complexity of legal gun carrying, Carter and his co-author included a number of control variables that helped to isolate the effects of firearm violence. Carter said, “After controlling for a range of possible explanatory factors, the relationship between firearm violence and subsequent legal gun permitting is quite present.”
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Yea, I read this as: “A violet crime is reported -> People want to carry”. Duh? That required a study?
Now this could be turned around by Al Gore so that “People get CCWs -> Gun violence increases”, kind of like that CO2 temperature thing, but as I read it the cause is crime not permitted citizens.
The key sentence :
“and provides evidence that should solicit further investigation,” the study says.”
The study was a success, what was discovered is the need for more funding.
Well, Amen to all of the previous. The failure to address the inverse cause and effect, make this nothing but a piece of junk. BTW, there’s a “Journal of Interpersonal Violence”???? WTF?
The key word for the whole article is the use of the word “subsequent” in the first line.
As stated by Allen Brooks the social engineers have, once again, confused cause and effect.
Open carry makes you a target.
Concealed carry makes you an unknown.
Shooters prefer “gun-free zones” such as schools, shopping malls, and courthouses.
A would-be shooter would plan to take out anybody s/he sees with a gun – FIRST.
If s/he knows there are people who may have concealed guns, s/he knows the chances of completing the planned attack plummet.
There is STILL no better deterrent or cure for a bad guy with a gun than a GOOD guy with a gun.
I have just made the correlation between silver being the most popular car color of the last 20 years and “The Pause.” Does that mean all cars should be painted silver? Of course not! Correlation is NOT causation.
Cause and effect is reversed here. As violent crime spikes, people arm themselves in defense, spiking the rise in CCP.
I would (logically) expect that an increase in armed citizens would lead to a spike in “gun violence” as the criminals learn the hard way that they have more to lose than they thought.
But the spike will be short lived.
And the decrease in face to face crimes will last a long time.