DOJ Hires Economist whose Research Concludes Widespread Gun Ownership can Reduce Crime

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

The Justice Department has hired an economist known for provocative research claiming that communities can reduce crime by allowing widespread gun ownership and implementing policies making it easier to carry a gun in public.

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The NRA is alive and well ~ at least until Biden's A.G. steps in to unscramble the partisan mess Barr and Trump has made of the Justice Department.

#1 | Posted by Twinpac at 2020-11-25 05:43 AM | Reply

Economist?

LOL!

#2 | Posted by Angrydad at 2020-11-25 07:54 AM | Reply

An Economist that is 'best known for his 1998 book, "More Guns, Less Crime."'

Oh dear god.

#3 | Posted by YAV at 2020-11-25 08:04 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Probably why, in the old west, may sheriffs required everyone to turn in their guns when they entered the town. Fortunately for America this White House hiring will be of very short time. Thank God Joe Biden won the election and we will finally be rid of the Orange Liar. I hope to never hear his ugly voice again, if they revive The Apprentice I will watch it just as much as I did before; i.e. not at all ever.

#4 | Posted by danni at 2020-11-25 08:25 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Setting the stage for the Big Gun Grab. As if we didn't see it coming.

#5 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2020-11-25 08:55 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

Stupid people with weapons makes America great

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2020-11-25 09:00 AM | Reply

Leave it to the demented------------ to install Mary Rosh at the DOJ.

archive.thinkprogress.org

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2020-11-25 09:29 AM | Reply

"Setting the stage for the Big Gun Grab. As if we didn't see it coming."

Just like the gun grab conducted by the Obama administration. How many times can Republicans use this lie?

#8 | Posted by danni at 2020-11-25 09:41 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

#8 - every time they hear it it's BRAND NEW!

#9 | Posted by YAV at 2020-11-25 10:06 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hell Danni, they've used at least since B.Clinton, that's when I started voting, and it's still one of the rights biggest boogie men.

#10 | Posted by zelkova at 2020-11-25 11:43 AM | Reply

Yeah? How's that "gun grabbing" going?

Nearly five million new gun owners have joined the 100 million-plus gun owners already in the U.S. in 2020, according to recent estimates from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). The same data also shows that 40% of all firearms sales are going to first-time buyers. www.pewresearch.org

Doesn't seem like there's a lot of "grabbing" going on, does it?

#11 | Posted by WhoDaMan at 2020-11-25 11:49 AM | Reply

Setting the stage for the Big Gun Grab. As if we didn't see it coming.

#5 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE

Run along little boy, there's still no wolf.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2020-11-25 11:58 AM | Reply

"Doesn't seem like there's a lot of "grabbing" going on, does it?
#11 | POSTED BY WHODAMAN"

Its not January 20 yet.

#13 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2020-11-25 12:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Scott Atlas, paging Scott Atlas...

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2020-11-25 12:56 PM | Reply

Its not January 20 yet.

#13 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE

You guys have been saying this since the 70's, and yet the number of guns in private hands in the US only goes up every year, never down. Carter didn't grab them, nor Clinton, nor Obama. What makes you think Biden (a gun owner, BTW) is going to?

#15 | Posted by WhoDaMan at 2020-11-25 05:21 PM | Reply

What makes you think Biden (a gun owner, BTW) is going to?

#15 | POSTED BY WHODAMAN

They don't think. That is the problem. They let conservative media think for them, tell them what they should feel. And conservative media finds it most profitable to tell them to feel afraid, to feel persecuted, to feel angry. And the little snowflakes, gullible little sheep freely let themselves be manipulated into feeling that way. Regardless of what facts or history indicates about whether what they have been ordered to "feel" is valid.

Trump said "I love the uneducated" and this is why. Bet you that Phester had no idea that Biden was a gun owner. Because that is not what conservatives elites have told him to "feel" is true.

#16 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2020-11-26 08:19 AM | Reply

Educate yourself skulltap..

floridianpress.com

Biden Proposed Gun Control Plan Could Hit Guns Owners With $34 Billion In Taxes.

#17 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2020-11-26 09:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

news.yahoo.com

Biden admin's gun buybacks will be nothing more than gun confiscation.

#18 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2020-11-26 09:25 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Ah hell dats nuttin. Cho like guns.
~lying D-rats

#19 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2020-11-26 09:26 AM | Reply

Taxes don't equal grabs. Still, idiots with guns is American as *u**.

#20 | Posted by hamburglar at 2020-11-26 09:29 AM | Reply

Isn't a gun buyback when private citizens willingly sell their firearms to the govt/police department?

#21 | Posted by hamburglar at 2020-11-26 09:34 AM | Reply

Hangdown, if you hate guns so much...Don't own one.
Do not dictate your hateful ways to me.
Now stfu and go tend to the turkey.

#22 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2020-11-26 09:40 AM | Reply

Since when is paying people to voluntarily sell their guns "confiscation"?

#23 | Posted by WhoDaMan at 2020-11-26 09:53 AM | Reply

Don't spread misinformation about guns in order to try to score political points. The gun problem in America is a factor in why I'm leaving the country

#24 | Posted by hamburglar at 2020-11-26 09:53 AM | Reply

Misinformation? Credible links are called for all the time.
Where you live is your decision. If you don't want to live where I live, its YOUR business.

#25 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2020-11-26 09:59 AM | Reply

I doubt you've ever held a gun, much less fired one. You seem way too timid.

#26 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2020-11-26 11:21 AM | Reply

"Where you live is your decision."

Cool I'll go live at your house then.

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2020-11-26 11:37 AM | Reply

"Cool I'll go live at your house then.
#27 | POSTED BY SNOOFY"

Comon over. You will be required to keep your room clean and help mow. I'll even give you an allowance.

#28 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2020-11-26 12:03 PM | Reply

"You will be required to keep your room clean"

That's a red flag right there.
Next thing I know you'll want me to make the bed too!

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2020-11-26 01:05 PM | Reply

The Fox News link isn't exactly misinformation, but it's a gun rights advocate making a foolish false equivalency argument that holds no water. Stupids are going to stupid, and all Americans pay the price.

School shooting drills are awesome, but not quite as fun as getting caught up in actual school shootings! /sarcasm

#30 | Posted by hamburglar at 2020-11-26 08:22 PM | Reply

Brilliant! Which is why Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis all have zero crime; right, Professor Plum?

#31 | Posted by e1g1 at 2020-11-26 10:43 PM | Reply

Which is why Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis all have zero crime; right, Professor Plum?

My guess is the idea is to differentiate between guns that are "owned" versus those merely "possessed".

#32 | Posted by REDIAL at 2020-11-26 10:57 PM | Reply

at least until Biden's A.G. steps in to unscramble the partisan mess Barr and Trump has made of the Justice Department.

By what? Moving it closer to YOUR partisan point of view?

#33 | Posted by boaz at 2020-11-26 11:34 PM | Reply

By what? Moving it closer to YOUR partisan point of view?

#33 | Posted by boaz

Just for the record - Do you think the department of justice should investigate and prosecute whoever the president tells them to, and ignore whatever crimes the president tells them to?

If so, is that partisan?

#34 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2020-11-27 12:02 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump hasn't just been partisan, he's been mafia with the DOJ. Enough of the sleazy mob-boss BS

#35 | Posted by hamburglar at 2020-11-27 04:43 PM | Reply