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Mass Shootings Have \u2018No Correlation to Gun Laws,\u2019 says Report<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S.A.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Washington, D.C.\u2014a jurisdiction with some of the strictest gun control laws in the country\u2014leads the nation with \u201cthe highest rate of mass shootings per capita,\u201d according to a report in the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/a>, citing new research released this week by medical researchers in Colorado.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the Daily Mail headlined its story: \u201cAmerica\u2019s mass shooting hotspots revealed: First of its kind study breaks down thousands of massacres by state \u2013 and there\u2019s NO correlation between gun control laws.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The study is published in\u00a0JAMA Network Open<\/strong><\/a>, and it relies on data from the Gun Violence Archive, a database often criticized by the firearms community. The work was done by researchers at the University of Colorado: Leslie M. Barnard, MPH, Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health; Erin Wright-Kelly, DrPH, MA, Injury and Violence Prevention Center, Colorado School of Public Health, and Marian E. Betz, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.<\/p>\n

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The report may cool some jets in the gun control community, which has maintained that states with the most guns and \u201clax\u201d laws have the highest number of shootings. But here\u2019s what the report says:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe rate of mass shootings per 1,000,000 people was highest in the District of Columbia (10.4 shootings), followed by much lower rates in Louisiana (4.2 mass shootings) and Illinois (3.6 mass shootings), the states with the next 2 highest rates<\/span> (Table<\/a>).\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Translation: Gun laws do not appear to have an impact, since the District of Columbia and the state of Illinois have restrictive laws, while Louisiana is far less restrictive.<\/p>\n

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As detailed by the Daily Mail, the \u201cTop Ten\u201d jurisdictions for mass shootings are:<\/p>\n