Study Undermines Dems' Gun Control Narrative by Showing No Link Between Gun Sales and Murder Spikes

A basis for Democratic claims about gun control is that limiting the number of guns Americans own makes people safer because the more guns people own, the less safe everyone else becomes.

A new study undercuts that claim, saying that connecting those dots might be great rhetoric but it is bad logic.

The study, published in the journal Injury Epidemiology, noted 2020 brought a massive increase in gun purchases and gun violence.

However, “the magnitude of the increase in purchasing at the state-level did not explain the magnitude of the increase in non-domestic firearm violence,” the study said.

The study noted that in the first two months of pandemic lockdowns, there was a spike in gun-related domestic violence incidents, but ascribed that more to the impact of lockdowns than gun purchases.

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“[W]e need to be looking at other factors, like job loss, economic change, the closure of schools and community organizations and nonprofits, and civil unrest” to understand the increase in gun violence last year, said Julia Schleimer, lead author of the study, according to The Guardian.

“There are a lot of strategies that can address some of the more social determinants of violence,” she said, adding that gun violence is correlated with poverty. “There’s some good evidence on youth summer job programs and young people’s risk for violence.”

The study estimated 4.3 million guns were purchased nationwide from March through July 2020 over and above expected trends and there was a...

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