Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase

Editor’s Note : This article is being republished in the wake of a school shooting in Uvalde, Tex., that killed at least 19 children and two teachers. It was the deadliest such attack since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, and occurred less than two weeks after a deadly shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., that killed 10 Black people in an act of domestic terrorism.

The sharp rises in gun violence seen in some Black communities since 2014 have been widely attributed to the “Ferguson effect.” This term was coined by the then-chief of the St. Louis police, who claimed violent crime increases were driven by officers’ deteriorating morale following nationwide protests of the 2014 police killing of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo.

Instead, they used data on federal firearm licenses as a proxy measure of gun availability. The researchers compared this to FBI data, as well as statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Census Bureau, to track homicides for every U.S. county. Their analysis found that when a gun dealership opens, homicides within a surrounding area of 100 square miles increase by as much as 3.9 percent in subsequent years.

Illinois has some of the country’s strictest gun laws, according to a gun-control advocacy organization called Giffords Law Center, and there are no licensed gun dealers in Chicago. Yet the city remains awash in firearms and is plagued by gun violence. Chicago is less than 100 miles from Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana , and all three have far fewer gun restrictions than Illinois.

Still, firearms bought from other licensed dealerships in the suburbs and surrounding states frequently turn up in Chicago shootings. In one recent high-profile case, a gun allegedly purchased by an Indiana resident in that state’s city of Hammond, which borders Chicago, was used in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer. In another, a man in Indianapolis allegedly bought a gun that was used to kill a seven-year-old girl on Chicago’s West Side.

“We need to make sure that we’re holding gun shops and gun manufacturers accountable,” says Kina Collins, a gun-violence prevention advocate who is primarying Congressman Danny Davis in Illinois’ 7th District—which includes some of Chicago’s hardest-hit neighborhoods, as well as parts of suburbs where gun dealerships are located.

What a load Can’t seem to trust SA at all anymore

Is this Politician American?

The increase of available tools for killing people do directly influence the number of people killed. If there were more apothecary’s and black magic stores there won’t be an increase in witchcraft. One is a real problem.

Yes, of course.

Like causality is a real thing. Sarcasm

Increasing violence causes people to be more interested in purchasing weapons for self defense. Gun shops don't cause homicide and assault any more than bars on windows cause burglaries.

The only person who made sense in that article was the former gangster.

What a joke article full of supposition based on non-peer-reviewed article and totally ignoring the lack of two parent households in the cited areas. Where is the graph showing gun deaths per 100,000 people over time? Instead went with deaths per 100 miles. Why?

It might help if the article was from this year

Where car dealerships open, there are more deaths caused by car collisions... Where pet stores open, there are more people bitten by dogs... Where hot dog stands open, there are more people killed by obiesity...

Yeah, it’s all those gun stores in Chicago.

more homicide not because gun stores open, but because of so much aggression in people

Find new experts. Yours are hopelessly tainted by an agenda.

Okay, great but at some point the horrible people behind the triggers need to be held accountable. We have an even bigger people problem.

Oh good. We just had a new gun shop take over a church that left because of attendance. Yeah us!

The US has the 2nd highest gun deaths per capita in the world along with Venezuela and Mexico who have no gun controls, whereas Canada, Britain and Japan have low gun deaths per capita with strong gun controls. Gun controls would save thousands of lives...

Good analysis, but ammo is also key. I am sure there are a gazillion apps that track ammo or supplies to make your own bullets. I rarely see any stats on the ammo shipments, movement across the country...ATF? Maybe it is time to revamp the ATF.

So, it's not simple statistics, it's 'experts 😂

Chicago?

WHO KNEW

Where did you experts who are so dishonest

Not really scientific quoting the secret 'experts' sharing their wisdom. Aren't you supposed cite sources?

Bullshit.

Not very 'scientific'.. This same 'study' can be used to show that more bars means more drunk drivers. More fast food places means more fat people.....ETC.... I would agree that stores that seem to sell nefariously should be taken to task however..

Guns Guns Guns | Robocop,

4 out of 5 dentist say cavities are caused by gun violence.

Sounds like you cherry picked people and called them experts

Doesn't sound like any gun expert I've heard; guns don't cause anything.

Trying to show a relationship between guns and “gun deaths” is a type of scientific fraud.

Hahaha! Nope, that’s a gun control lie.

Car crashes are caused by dealerships, if you honestly believe this line of thought you slept through history and civics class

Water causes wetness!

Since you can't buy a gun through a licensed dealer without a federal background check what does that say about gun laws?

Really? Is there a gun store on every corner in Chicago and Philidelphia?

When the sun comes up it's bright outside

Correlation ≠ Causation

Wow what a relevation!

This is going to upset the low information voter crowd.

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