When it smells like propaganda………..
– Study included justifiable self defense
– Study used a model to ASSUME an ESTIMATED homicide increase
– Cited a study that stated: “Unrealistic to expect the existence of a new FFL to change the homicide rate”
– Increased homicides were “limited mostly to counties that have a high percent of Black residents.”
Scientific American Headline: Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase
When Illinois passed a law in 2014 permitting the concealed carrying of firearms—becoming the last of the 50 states to do so—Sam Rannochio opened Check Your 6, Inc. in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. The store sells handguns and rifles, and also offers concealed-carry classes. “The two kind of go hand-in-hand together,” Rannochio says.
Check Your 6 was one of hundreds of gun dealerships that opened across the United States between 2010 and 2017, notes a preprint study that was published last month on social science research website SSRN and has not yet been peer-reviewed. According to the study, which looked at county-level data nationwide over a 17-year period, when the number of gun dealerships within 100 miles of a given area went up, the number of gun homicides in that area also increased in subsequent years—even as nongun killings declined overall (see graphic). Majority-Black communities bore the brunt of that violence, the study found.