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Guns Don't Kill People....(gun violence)
National Research Council, Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, National Academies Press, 2004 (books.nap.edu)
A panel assembled by the National Research Council (which many assumed would be predisposed to find a connection between gun ownership and violence) has been unable to find evidence to support such a contention. Nor can it find data that gun control policies reduce violence.
As University of Maryland professor Charles Wellford, the panel chairman, told the press, "There is no credible evidence that the more than 80 gun-violence prevention programs reviewed by the committee had any effect on children's or teen's attitudes, knowledge, or behavior regarding firearms."
While the panel found there was an association between gun availability and gun suicide, the research did not show a cause-and-effect relationship between the two.
The panel concluded that even if the data had showed a causal connection between firearms and lethal violence, violence reduction programs would be difficult to develop because many factors other than gun use influence violence levels. "The intent of the people involved, the nature of their interactions and ...
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