{"id":41243,"date":"2014-02-28T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T22:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/a-data-point-in-the-gun-control-debate.html"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:04:06","slug":"a-data-point-in-the-gun-control-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/a-data-point-in-the-gun-control-debate.html","title":{"rendered":"A data point in the gun control debate"},"content":{"rendered":"
When Missouri in 2007 repealed a law requiring a gun permit to purchase a handgun, homicides went up, and the number of recently-purchased guns recovered from criminals and crime scenes doubled.<\/p>\n

Neighboring states did not see a similar increase, nor was there an increase in non-firearm homicide in Missouri in the same period.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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When Missouri in 2007 repealed a law requiring a gun permit to purchase a handgun, homicides went up, and the number of recently-purchased guns recovered from criminals and crime scenes doubled. Neighboring states did not see a similar increase, nor was there an increase in non-firearm homicide in Missouri in the same period.\ufeff Gun murders … Continue reading “A data point in the gun control debate”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129055,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/03\/restrictions-for-the-goose-are-restrictions-for-the-gander.html","url_meta":{"origin":41243,"position":0},"title":"Restrictions for the goose are restrictions for the gander","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Dec-15 11:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or would be under State Rep. 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