Read the July 2020 newsletter here.
07/26/20-Business Insider “Looser concealed-carry laws had little impact on mass shootings and increased a state’s gun homicide rate by 11%,” Emma Fridel, CJRA Expert.
07/24/20-The Crime Report “The results of the current study, for example, indicate that reducing gun ownership…benefits mass shooting prevention efforts, while reinstating more restrictive concealed carry legislation decreases the overall firearms homicide rate,” Emma Fridel, CJRA Expert.
07/23/20-Colorado Politics “More permissive concealed carry legislation was associated with a 10.8% increase in the firearms homicide incidence rate, yet had no significant effect on mass shooting,” Emma Fridel, CJRA Expert.
Over the past 30 years, mass shootings have fueled calls for changes in gun ownership and concealed carry legislation, but few studies have evaluated whether permissive gun policies deter mass shootings, and none have determined if their effects are the same on firearms homicides. A new study examined the impact of household gun ownership and […]
Over the past 30 years, mass shootings have fueled calls for changes in gun ownership and concealed carry legislation, but few studies have evaluated whether permissive gun policies deter mass shootings, and none have determined if their effects are the same on firearms homicides. A new study examined the impact of household gun ownership and […]
07/20/20-Wall Street Journal “U.S. cities have also seen increases in violence that may be linked to the pandemic and shifting public opinions on the police. ‘It’s not clear anywhere exactly what’s going on’,” David Kennedy, CJRA Expert.
07/20/200-Fox News “I don’t mean to discount their violence. But they are responsible for a small fraction, no more than 2 percent, of gang-related homicides, and an even smaller fraction of all homicides, in the United States,” David Pyrooz, CJRA Expert.
07/06/20-Atlanta Journal-Constitution “It’s like taking (a) rose out of (a) thorn bush, kind of hard to pinpoint exactly what’s good versus what’s bad,” Lorenzo Boyd, CJRA Expert.
Read the June 2020 newsletter here.