The War on Guns by Lott John R

Author:Lott, John R.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-6215-7598-6
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2016-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

THE URBAN INSTITUTE REPORT AND WHAT IT DOESN’T TELL YOU

A recent Urban Institute study by John Roman claims to have found that, “Stand Your Ground laws appear to exacerbate those [racial] differences, as cases overall are significantly more likely to be justified in Stand Your Ground (SYG) states than in non-SYG states.”25 Roman acknowledges that his data is lacking sufficient detail to provide the “setting of the incident.”26 Indeed, Roman’s estimates contain virtually none of the information available in the Tampa Bay Times data set. For example, he has no data on eyewitnesses and physical evidence. Roman also has no information on who initiated the confrontations, where the attacks occurred, or on the general circumstances of the incidents.27

Even using his limited information, Roman draws the wrong conclusions. To the extent to which the Urban Institute study proves anything, it proves the opposite of what Roman thinks that it does.

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