Laws requiring background checks for buyers of guns and ammunition, as well as requirements that firearms be traceable, could sharply reduce gun deaths in the United States, according to a study published on Thursday.
Many state-level gun regulations have little effect on the number of gun-related homicides and suicides. But “stand-your-ground” laws, which allow people to use deadly force in self-defense even if fleeing is an option, tend to raise the number of gun deaths, the study by Boston University researchers published in the Lancet medical journal found.
“Very few of the existing state-specific firearms laws are associated with reduced mortality, and this evidence underscores the importance of focusing on relevant and effective firearms legislation,” said Sandro Galea, dean of the School of Public Health at Boston University, an author of the study.
“Implementing universal background checks for the purchase of firearms or ammunition, and firearm identification nationally could substantially reduce mortality in the U.S.”
About 90 people die of gun-related injuries, both homicides and suicides, in the United States each day. The study found that nationwide adoption of background check laws as well as measures making it easier to track spent ammunition back to the gun that fired it could reduce gun-related deaths by as much as 80 percent.
The study looked at how deaths in 2010 were influenced by gun laws put into place in 25 states the year before.
It found that closing loopholes allowing gun buyers to avoid background checks when purchasing guns was the most effective way of reducing gun-related deaths.
Other regulations, including requiring more stringent record-keeping by gun dealers or mandating gun locks, had no measurable effect on gun-related deaths.
Opposition to gun regulations is strong in the Republican-led U.S. Congress, which has resisted measures pushed by Democratic President Barack Obama after a series of mass shootings including the massacre of 26 young children and educators in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.
In a January executive order, Obama imposed gun control measures that included requiring more gun buyers to undergo background checks.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Peter Cooney)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guncontrol-health-idUSKCN0WC2YL
Notice how sites like Reuters, NYT, and now even Yahoo don’t allow feedback for their lies?
They used to allow feedback, as long as you said something stupid, but if you started to expose their lies it was censored anyway.
They’re only in the business of deceiving and conditioning you, and it’s absurd to think you’d get any measure of truth out of them.
“About 90 people die of gun-related injuries, both homicides and suicides, in the United States each day.”
First of all, I don’t believe their numbers, because it wasn’t too long ago that they were claiming there were about ten gun deaths per day, so I guess that had to exaggerate their “study” a bit to add drama.
Secondly, 6700 die everyday in America of something or another, so even their bogus “90 per day” figure isn’t very large at all.
This is just a backdoor attempt at universal gun registration, and they can shove it deep.
The “gun control” debate is over. No one’s interested in your lying studies, no one even expects you to tell the truth, and no one is giving up any guns.
But it certainly does seem that most people are looking forward to giving you the bullets.
IF AND WHEN THESE NEW INFRIGMENTS ARE PASSED, IT SHOULD FINISH SEPERATING “LAW ABIDING CITIZENS” FROM FREEDOM LOVING NATIONALS.