What National Crime Wave?
This past week, the [Crime Prevention Research Center] CPRC made a real difference correcting false claims made by both the Obama administration and other gun control advocates. Last September, the Obama administration tried to make gun control an issue in the fall election by getting massive news coverage for a study claiming that public shootings were soaring. We knew this claim was wrong, but the Obama administration and the academics who helped write [the] report completely refused repeated requests for explanations of what they had done. In March, [CPRC] published a report in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Today and that finally forced the academics to respond at the beginning of June, and they acknowledged the errors in their data. Fortunately, this last week Wall Street Journal picked up on this admission.
In those few hot spots where there has been an increase in crime, what is the underlying reason for the increase? Can the blame really be placed on guns?
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