Data show increased gun control made Baltimore a more dangerous place

**Beetlegeuse** · 03-07-2019, 03:37 PM

This is only excerpts because the story has lots of charts and reproducing them here would have been more involved than I was willing to get.

From The Baltimore Post-Examiner:

Has gun control made Baltimore safer? Data analyst says ‘No’

By Brian Bissett · March 7, 2019

...My opposition to additional gun control legislation is not an emotional reaction but is rather based on a careful analysis of Baltimore City crime compared to its sister cities in terms of population, wealth and proximity. I have also analyzed firearms crime in Baltimore City both before and after the implementation of the Firearms Safety Act of 2013....

...The trend that emerges is that once firearms laws go beyond requiring a background check for purchase and safety training, robberies, assaults, shootings, and murders with firearms rise. (emphasis added) This trend was not just present in Baltimore, but the “like” cities it was compared with....

...In 2015, DEATHS by SHOOTINGS in Baltimore City roughly doubled and have not fallen since. Baltimore has on average 275 to 300 people shot to death each year, up from about 150 to 175 prior to the passage of the FIREARMS SAFETY ACT OF 2013. Population flight from the City of Baltimore has also resumed as people are fleeing from the sharp increase in violence permeating every area of Baltimore City....

...The Firearms Safety Act of 2013 was implemented with the hope of making Maryland safer, but it did not make Maryland safer. Crime utilizing Firearms in Baltimore City got significantly worse in Baltimore City after the Firearms Safety Act, and Deaths caused only by Shooting with a Firearm DOUBLED and have not fallen since. (emphasis added)

The single most significant causal attribute here was the implementation of the Firearms Safety Act of 2013.

It can be said with certainty that none of the extremely stringent Gun Control laws implemented in Maryland lowered crime in Baltimore City....

...Additional laws impeding lawful citizens from acquiring firearms in Maryland has had no effect on reducing violent crime committed with firearms in Baltimore City. (emphasis added)

Baltimore had greater numbers of murders, assaults, and robberies in 2018 than 2017, despite the passage of more gun control laws....

**EDCG19** · 03-07-2019, 04:28 PM

I don't believe anyone who attempts to push an anti gun agenda or confiscation agenda have any interest in public safety anyway. The problem here is this is in Baltimore.. what do you expect is going to happen, the guns aren't the issue

Also when they say on average 275-300 people per year thats a lie. Its probably 5-10% more than that