Over the past few years lobbyists for the N.R.A. have strenuously fought any attempt to use federal dollars to study the relationship between regulations and deaths by firearms. Congress forbade the Center for Disease Control from even looking at the issue.
Here’s why the N.R.A. did not want to study the issue. Last month the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that firearms deaths were associated with lesser regulations.
Today the New York Times reported on a second study, this one by the Center for American Progress, that looked at this issue state-by-state. The Center found that the states with the fewest regulations ranked high on gun homicides, firearms deaths of children, and killing of law enforcement officers.
By the way, Alaska ranked first in gun deaths. Louisiana and Montana were second and third. Hawaii had the least deaths from guns. For the Reuters report on the Center for American Progress study, click on <http://ca.news.yahoo.com/states-weakest-firearm-laws-lead-gun-deaths-study-185335813.html>.
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