Fascinating paper
"...We find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20-29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths." drive.google.com/file/d/1aEfIlS
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Primarily through restrictions on gun ownership. Will be interesting to watch conservatives debate each other on this.
Is it clear whether the young men stop murdering, or just move to the nearest town with a lax prosecutor and keep murdering?
The idea isn't to control everyone's guns, but instead to fight actual crime. That ends up controlling guns.
People really should read (and generally understand) studies before promoting or criticizing them, especially for partisan purposes. Or, at least read the discussion along with the abstract.
Given that the reduction in mortality is primarily a driven by a two stage-process:
The most frustrating aspect of living in blue states is how blindingly obvious it is that luxury beliefs are counterproductive to voters’ own ostensible policy goals
Most violent crime is committed by people previously arrested for violent crime.
When they are locked up, they can't add to totals.
It's a shame people treat this like a partisan issue.
It is fascinating, but not because of the conclusion drawn, but the mechanism therefor ... Republican prosecutors result in more felony convictions result in more gun restrictions result in fewer deaths. This is a scientific study promoting gun restrictions.
Some of these effects seem wild. How does electing a republican bureaucrat lower suicides by 13%?
That would make a great campaign ad.
“Vote for me. Save lives. It’s science.”
It probably wasn’t the case 15 years ago, but the Politicization of Everything and the Soros Prosecutor made this inevitable.
You mean actually prosecuting crime saves lives???
That’s shocking.
The media could not be played.
So the liberals excuse of needing more gun laws... is just a cop out for them just not enforcing the current laws because of racism and such.
Proactive policing + just following the existing law and prosecuting gun crimes according to that law would reduce most big city violent crime by 1/3rd.
I thought an earlier narrow election study found no significant difference in crime rate, does this make sense? Will try to find the study and link it shortly.
asked claude to write a Haiku that distilled down the core findings of this paper. Enjoy
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Teeth keep the grass green
the lamb sleeps without knowing
what bled for its peace.
It's been well documented that Progressive prosecutors don't go after straw gun buyers when those buyers are minority women acquiring guns for their prohibited family members or friends. Something about the Marxian dialectic of power dynamics...
Studies show lax prosecution of illegal firearm increase death of black young men! A PMC review noted States allowing felony prosecution for unlawful gun possession saw drops in gun deaths, implying enforcement reduces risks.
Releasing offenders to offend again - nonsensical!
George Soros has been acting on this knowleged for a decade, but using it perversely to cause mayhem and death and the collapse of western civilization by using his wealth to install enemies of the people as prosecutors.
according to this paper how many excess murders happen in San Francisco per year?
Why is this on a private Google drive and not one of the big reseach collection sites like SSRN or a pre-publish one?
Guns don’t kill people, people with long extensive criminal histories kill people
Was thinking democrats don’t care if their policies result in more death on the streets. Now at least we know there is a better alternative.
So the idea is what elect republicans so we can put brown bodies behind bars?