Daniel W. Webster & Jon S. Vernick are sloppy researchers who have used a
publication to be a vehicle for opinion passing as research results along with
error filled research. For details, see my Enclosure (1) attached to testimony
to the Maryland legislature in 2002. That enclosure presents an analysis of
the paper ‘Effects of Maryland’s Law Banning “Saturday Night Special” Handguns
on Homicides’ by Daniel W. Webster, Jon S. Vernick, and Lisa M. Hepburn,
American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 155, Issue 5, Pp. 406-412. The link
to my testimony is http://www.mcrkba.org/_Testimony2002/SB223_Testimony.pdf.
A major careless flaw in their study is to use CDC data about firearm murders
in Maryland rather than handgun murders. These data from the CDC included
murders with long guns (rifles and shotguns) which decreased from 10% of all
murders to about 3% over the study period. These researchers attributed this
decrease to a ban of small cheap handguns while ignoring a significant increase
in handgun murders in numbers and as a percent of total murder during the
study period. Webster was made aware of this error by me, but I'm not aware of
any correction to his study. This article was filled with editorial opinions
and sloppy research.
My opinion of Webster and Vernick are that they are not people who can be taken
as serious contributors of knowledge, but are paid editorial writers.
Phil
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Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:35 PM
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U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: RIGHTS & LIBERTIES eJOURNAL
"The Scope of Regulatory Authority Under the Second Amendment"
REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: INFORMING POLICY WITH EVIDENCE AND ANALYSIS
(Daniel W. Webster & Jon S. Vernick eds., 2013)
Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 13-1
LAWRENCE ROSENTHAL, Chapman University - School of Law
Email: [email protected]
ADAM WINKLER, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Email: [email protected]
This paper will appear as a chapter in a forthcoming book to be published by
the Johns Hopkins University Press that analyzes the efficacy of firearms
regulation. In this paper, the authors analyze the emerging jurisprudential
framework for assessing the validity of firearms regulation under the Second
Amendment to the United States Constitution. This emerging framework, the
authors contend, preserves substantial regulatory authority for federal, state,
and local governments. The authors then assess the constitutionality of the
leading proposals for regulatory reform that have emerged in the wake of the
tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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