panel couldn't identify any benefits of decades-long effort to reduce crime and

panel couldn't identify any benefits of decades-long effort to reduce crime and


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> December 29, 2004 -- THIS month the National Academy of Sciences issued a
> 328-page report on gun-control laws. The big news is that the academy's panel
> couldn't identify any benefits of decades-long effort to reduce crime and
> injury by restricting gun ownership. The only conclusion it could draw was: Let's
> study the question some more (presumably, until we find the results we want).
> The academy, however, should believe its own findings. Based on 253 journal
> articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, a survey that covered 80
> different gun-control measures and some of its own empirical work, the panel
> couldn't identify a single gun-control regulation that reduced violent crime,
> suicide or accidents.
>
> http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/37260.htm
>