Saturday, January 19, 2013

Like Obama, President Carter had a similar ideas on Gun control in the 80's...he was proved wrong

Among the 23 “executive actions” President Obama announced yesterday amidst great fanfare (and shameless exploitation of children) is this: 
“Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.” 
Obama may want to put a hold on that one, until he comes to grips with what happened the last time a U.S. president tried it.
It seems during the 80's President Carter had a massive study and research project initiated that he hoped would prove that more gun laws and controls were in order.

That's not what the findings of the study showed:
Their findings, summarized starkly by co-author Wright, were that “Gun control laws do not reduce crime.” “When Wright, Rossi and Daly produced their report for the National Institute of Justice, they delivered a document quite different from the one they had expected to write,” explained David Kopel, research director of the Independence Institute and co-author of the law school textbook, “Firearms Law and the Second Amendment.” “Carefully reviewing all existing research to date, the three scholars found no persuasive scholarly evidence that America’s 20,000 gun-control laws had reduced criminal violence.”
Read the whole story and the findings of the study HERE.

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