Lies, Damned Lies and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Agenda 'Research'

Firearm Purchaser Licensing Laws Linked to Fewer Fatal Mass Shootings B- ANS ON LARGE-CAPACITY MAGAZINES WERE ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH FEWER FATAL MASS SHOOTINGS AND FATALITIES [More]

Like in Germany and Thailand?

Seeing as how 5 million ought to provide a pretty statistically significant test group, what's the difference of mass shooting rates between licensed and unlicensed NRA members, and what impact did magazine capacity have on their mass shooting rates?

I'm also told:

There's a lot of weasel wording here.  And the quality of research is demonstrated to me by a gross error: they list North Carolina as one of the states with firearm purchasing permits.  That is an old 1921 law, still in force, originally intended to keep handguns out of the hands of African-Americans.  It does not apply to long guns, and as a SC resident (contiguous state) I can purchase an AR or AK variant in Charlotte or Raleigh and bring it home as long as I can pass the NICS check. There is no NC (or SC) state paperwork to fill out.

Note text buried near the end that there is no "independent association between" mass shooting deaths and AW bans.

If they can't get such simple facts straight, they don't deserve the title "researcher."

Who says they're interested in getting facts straight? They just want to get a meme out there that gives the impression of being authoritative.

Methinks someone is trying to take attention away from a miserable debate performance...

Figures Daniel W. Webster would be up to his neck in this.

[Via Roger J]

Addendum:

I don't know why they did not include Michigan in their work, since they included North Carolina.  As I learned when I lived in MI 10 years ago, they have a pistol permit law so similar to NC's I wondered if the legislators back in 1927 took NC's 1921 law as a model. Again, no permit needed to buy long guns of any kind.  I suspect the Hopkins "researchers" were either 1) ignorant of Michigan's law, or 2) including Michigan would have blown their "findings".  As a real scientist this kind of crap makes me sick.  But it's all over the place now - see climate "research".