Author of Gun Control-’Demolishing’ Study Also ‘Proved’ Forced Ultrasound Laws ‘Work’

[SecularMotion]

There’s a new study being reported on and touted by conservatives that — as my colleague Noah Rothman describes it — supposedly “demolishes” everything for which we sad little gun control advocates stand.

The study supports longstanding gun advocate talking points about how arming everyone makes the world safer, and is being presented as some sort of neutral scientific assessment. Before anyone in the mainstream media is tempted to fall for this con, they should know two things: It seems like no one reporting on this study has fully read its contents; and its author, Mark Gius, has something of a right-wing “tell.”

Breitbart calls it a “Quinnipiac Study” because the author is a professor of economics at Quinnipiac University, but the study is published in the journal Applied Economics Letters. The reason I say no one reporting on Gius’ study — “An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates” — is that no one seems to quote anything but the study’s abstract:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/author-of-gun-control-demolishing-study-also-proved-forced-ultrasound-laws-work/

[billh58]

1. More right-wing lies and propaganda posing as a legitimate "study."

From the linked article:

"Gius is also the author of several other studies, including “The Effects of Interracial Marriage on Individual-Level Earnings,” in which he concludes that “persons in interracial marriages earn as much or more than persons in white marriages. The only interracial marriages that do worse than white marriages are those marriages that include an African-American male.”

One clue that Gius might not be such a straight shooter, ideologically speaking, is evident in his “The Impact of Ultrasound Laws on the Demand for Abortions by Young Women,” which naturally concludes that forced ultrasound laws “reduce the odds of a woman having an abortion quite substantially.”

In his conclusion, though, Gius slips up a little further (emphasis mine):

The primary motivation for the present study was to determine if the anecdotal evidence on ultrasound laws was true: did giving women the opportunity to view their unborn fetus reduce the probability that they would have an abortion? Most pro-life groups believe that is the case. Most pro-choice groups also believe it to be true, although they believe that these laws are unconstitutional. Results of the present study suggest, however, that both groups are correct; ultrasound requirement laws reduce the odds of a woman having an abortion quite substantially."

The Koch Brothers, ALEC, the NRA, and the Tea Party all support these bogus "studies" and the bigotry behind them in order to promote racism, misogamy, and gun violence on the streets for profit.