{"id":8013,"date":"2022-06-02T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2022-06-02T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:15:26","slug":"mass-shootings-typically-lead-to-looser-gun-laws-not-stronger-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8013","title":{"rendered":"Mass shootings typically lead to looser gun laws, not stronger ones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Recent research finds that this seemingly perverse response \u2014 the use of a mass shooting as a justification for looseninggun laws and calling for moreguns \u2014 is actually the norm in the United States. One study, published in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0047272719301446?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Journal of Public Economics<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;in 2020, examined state legislatures\u2019 policy responses in the wake of mass shootings \u2014 and found that they were heavily tilted toward lax regulation.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/23142829\/uvalde-robb-elementary-mass-shooting-gun-politcal-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/23142829\/uvalde-robb-elementary-mass-shooting-gun-politcal-science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Recent research finds that this seemingly perverse response \u2014 the use of a mass shooting as a justification for loosening gun laws and calling for more guns \u2014 is actually the norm in the United States. One study, published in the Journal of Public Economics in 2020, examined state legislatures\u2019 policy responses in the wake of mass shootings \u2014 and found that they were heavily tilted toward lax regulation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[794,113,407,112,406,109,1290],"class_list":["post-8013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-gun-ban","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-deaths","tag-gun-laws","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8014,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions\/8014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}