The Legal Community Against Violence’s new publication, Guns in Public Places, examines how dramatic changes in state laws have significantly expanded the number of people who may carry concealed, loaded handguns in public. The brochure also documents how weak laws in many states now allow hidden guns in schools, places of worship, bars, and parks, creating dangerous new risks to the American public.
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June, 16th 2001
"Of the 395,366 firearms-related deaths reported in the United States between 1997...and 2009...about one-third are thought to have involved alcohol." Further, people who carry guns in public are more likely to be heavy drinkers.
Los Angeles Times, "Guns and alcohol: Gun owners drink more and take more risks, study says" View
About The Study
June 14,2011
News From UC Davis Health System
A Violence Policy Center study found that since May 2007, 300 people, including 11 law enforcement officers, have been killed by people legally allowed to carry loaded guns in public.
This study published in the American Journal of Public Health showed that the risk of an employee being murdered in a workplace that allowed guns was nearly seven times greater than in a workplace that prohibited weapons.
May 12, 2010
Washington, D.C. - A majority of Americans oppose people carrying loaded guns openly in public. More feel unsafe than feel safer - and a third feel much less safe with that knowledge, according to a poll conducted for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence by respected polling firm Lake Research Partners.
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Press Release).
PHILADELPHIA – In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The study estimated that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not possessing a gun.
The study was released online this month in the American Journal of Public Health, in advance of print publication in November 2009.
Regression to the Mean, Murder Rates, and Shall-Issue Laws
Patricia Grambsch
The pro-gun lobby and the gun industry have claimed that legalizing the carrying of hidden, loaded guns will mean a decrease in violent crime and an increase in public safety. Those claims aren't based on the facts, on what the vast majority of the people want, or on common sense.
