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Isn't it more effective to simply look at other countries who haven't put such restrictions on their their gun control research?
by socalnate1 14y ago
Isn't it more effective to simply look at other countries who haven't put such restrictions on their their gun control research?
- rdl 14y agoThere are huge variations across countries, or even across states or within a state within the US, so it's not particularly predictive to say banning guns in Japan means they should be banned in the US.
- piasen 14y agoAgreed. The approach we used in our earlier gun study and will also use in this study is to try and control for cultural differences across states using various standard econometric techniques (fixed effects, lagged dependent variables etc). Otherwise it would be foolish to just eyeball Massachusetts and Mississippi and assume what works in one will work in the other!