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Spend enough money, crunch enough data — you can "prove" anything.
A recent study out of the hallowed halls of the University of California at Berkeley found a 70 percent increase in gun deaths and injuries in California communities after gun shows in nearby Nevada cities, but no increase in gun violence following gun shows in California.
If research shows it, it must prove something nefarious about the difference between state gun laws in California and those in Nevada, right?
"Our study suggests that California's strict regulations — on firearms, generally, and on gun shows, specifically — may be effective in preventing short-term increases in firearm deaths and injuries following gun shows," a news account quotes the study's lead author, Ellicott Matthay, a Ph.D. student, as saying.
Thomas Mitchell: Federally funded gun study misfires