Statistics Show A Reliable Way To Reduce Gun Violence… (But Lefties Won’t Like It)

Gun-grabbing activists like nothing better than to dream up new and inventive ways to hamper and harass law-abiding gun-owners from enjoying their Constitutional rights to self-defence.

They’ll always couch their gun-grabbing or restrictionist views in some variation of ‘for the greater good’, as if that isn’t also the refuge of every tyrant, from the least to the greatest, who has ever had to answer the ‘why’ question for his tyranny.

They’ll cite any report or study they can get their hands on that so much as suggests that the cure for the problem is bigger government and a heavier hand. Let’s see what happens when a study comes out that defies their expectations.

Better still, it came out of Vanderbilt, which is by no stretch of the imagination a ‘right wing’ university.

Remember when Obama said ‘elections have consequences’? He was right. Pick the right guy and it can literally save lives. Of course, that cuts both ways. Here is the draft of a study by Bencsik and Giles, professors from Vanderbilt and Wellesley colleges, respectively.

From the abstract:

[…]Using data from hundreds of closely contested partisan elections from 2010 to 2019 and a vote share regression discontinuity design, we find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20 to 29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths, including a large reduction in firearm homicide among Black men and a smaller reduction in firearm suicides and accidents primarily among White men. Mechanism analyses indicate that increased prison-based incapacitation explains about one third of the effect among Black men and none of the effect among White men. Instead, the primary channel appears to be substantial increases in criminal conviction rates across racial groups and crime types, which then reduce firearm access through legal restrictions on gun ownership for the convicted.[…]

Which elected official has the biggest effect on all-cause mortality rates in jurisdictions that break pretty evenly between left and right? It’s not the lawmakers. It’s not the Governor or mayor. It’s not even the Sheriff –they checked for that possibility.

Nope: the greatest difference-maker for all-cause mortality in a closely contested race is whether the PROSECUTOR is red or blue.

So all those ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaigns, the ‘Abolish the Police’ movements, and all of those Soros prosecutors trying to tilt the judicial system in favor of oppressed minorities? They are actually making it more likely that the very populations they claim to champion die prematurely.

Fascinating paper

"…We find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20-29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths." https://t.co/Vq36DQ1JYy pic.twitter.com/zMGRI8vB3r

— Santi Ruiz (@rSanti97) February 26, 2026

Those ‘all cause mortalities’, in this case are disproportionately gun deaths. And downgrading felony or domestic abuse charges isn’t doing anyone any favors. In fact, charging felonies as appropriate puts the offender in a category where lawful ownership is prohibited. That fact alone seems to play a role in saving lives, including the kind that Dems pretend to dare about.