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In 2011, the U of Montreal study was published in the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Justice showing Canadian gun legislation and drops in gun deaths. Langemann, whose study did not include suicides, is an NRA member and Against Gun Registry which explains his odd statement that the gun registry hurts and kills people. I'm guessing he means if only those people had been armed.
You can't just scratch the surface, you have to dig a little deeper. Many websites were mentioning Wintemute as if he was a firm anti-gun legislation advocate. However, those websites left out a lot of what the Boston Children's Hospital study panel including Wintemute actually stated and was printed in JAMA.
The study does not establish cause-and-effect nor which particular gun laws are effective but does suggest a positive relationship between gun control and gun violence. Dr. Eric Fleegler and colleagues analyzed firearm deaths reported to CDCP from 2007 through 2010. Dr. Fleegler said, "It seems pretty clear: If you want to know which of the states have the lowest gun-mortality rates just look for those with the greatest number of gun laws."
They conclude that further study is necessary but there is a big barrier to more study. Dr. Wintemute lamented the chokehold on funding. Even with Obama's recent executive order for CDCP to resume gun violence research that stopped in the 1990's, it is up to Congress to fund it, $10 million. Now you tell me what the chances are that the Republican House will do that.
Take a guess at which gun lobbying group was instrumental in killing research spending millions to do so.
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