Study Shows Gun Laws Don't Matter, Race Does | Frontpage Mag

I attempted to find the source of the statistics, but I recall that the passage of the Sullivan Act in New York City in 1911 essentially made the possession of a firearm to be a misdemeanor, and the carrying of one to be a felony. London was about the same size as New York City, but had passed no such laws. Nine years after the passage of the Sullivan Act, in 1920, New York City still had strikingly more gun deaths than London (where firearms possession was legal, at the time).

Moral of the story: New Yorkers liked to shoot each other more than Londoners.

Is it color or poverty and despair? Violence always spikes in the summer and here in my town I read about at least one shooting each day.

Now let's look at gun violence in impoverished neighborhoods. I think race is a red herring. Normalize for poverty and you'll probably find a much higher correlation than for race.