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Permit Requirements Could Reduce Gun Deaths
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Bruce W. Krafft
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"The national focus of the recent shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. may have shifted from gun control to racism and the Confederate flag, but the question remains as to what sort of policies would keep firearms from dangerous people."
"Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, believes he has an answer: permit-to-purchase laws. A June study published by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research – released five days prior to the murders of nine African American parishioners in Charleston –connected a 1995 Connecticut law requiring a permit in order to purchase a handgun with a 40 percent reduction in the state’s firearm homicide rate. ..." ... |
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Millwright66
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Too bad Mr. Webster isn't sufficiently astute enough to first conduct some research on gun homicides in states that have the requirement he's endorsing. Say, like New Jersey where his pogrom has been in effect for fifty odd years ? Better, Webster could personally conduct some field research in Newark, Camden, Trenton, etc. |
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