Gun-Control Groups Push Growing Evidence That Laws Reduce Violence

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WASHINGTON — With guns emerging as a major flash point in the presidential race and campaigns nationwide, gun-control advocates are spending tens of millions of dollars on a central message: Stronger firearms laws can reduce gun violence.

Although the National Rifle Association has long rejected that assertion, a growing body of evidence from academics, advocacy groups and others supports the link between gun restrictions and a reduction in violence.

The latest analysis comes out Wednesday from the Center for American Progress, a leading liberal group that supports toughened gun control. It concludes that gun fatalities in states with weaker laws are more than three times as high as in those states with tougher restrictions, including background checks or permits.

Gun control has traditionally been a radioactive political issue in America. But voters in four states with gun measures on the ballot — California, Maine, Nevada and Washington — appear likely to approve toughened restrictions next month, and the gun debate is playing out in dozens of congressional campaigns as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/us/gun-control-national-rifle-association.html?_r=0

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