#readwise # The Atrocity of American Gun Culture  ## Metadata - Author: [[Jelani Cobb]] - Full Title: The Atrocity of American Gun Culture - URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/the-atrocity-of-american-gun-culture ## Highlights Two years ago, a study published in the journal Justice Quarterly [examined the effects of gun laws in every state](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2020.1789693). Emma Fridel, an assistant professor of criminology at Florida State University, looked at gun-ownership rates and the proliferation of concealed-carry laws between 1991 and 2016. State lawmakers pushing for laxer laws have tended to argue that a more broadly armed public would serve as a deterrent to violence. Fridel found the opposite: **gun-homicide rates in states with more permissive carry policies were eleven per cent higher than in states with stricter laws, and the probability of mass shootings increased by roughly fifty-three per cent in states with more gun ownership.** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gmfftxej9fng7e6p8a7rgn01)) ^uwuath