{"id":4602,"date":"2011-03-27T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/03\/27\/always-hard-to-prove-causation\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:13:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:13:55","slug":"always-hard-to-prove-causation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4602","title":{"rendered":"Always Hard To Prove Causation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17858,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.lcav.org\\\/about\\\/index.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17859,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.joycefdn.org\\\/content.cfm\\\/program-grants-list-3&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20111008115252\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.joycefdn.org\\\/content.cfm\\\/program-grants-list-3&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 15:39:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 15:39:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17860,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.lcav.org\\\/publications-briefs\\\/model_laws.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17861,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/abcnews.go.com\\\/Business\\\/story?id=7297745&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/abcnews.go.com\\\/Business\\\/story?id=7297745&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/splicd.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Juliet Leftwich is the Executive Director of Legal Community Against Violence or LCAV. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcav.org\/about\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LCAV is a San Francisco-based group<\/a> that promotes gun control and which has received over $2.3 million from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joycefdn.org\/content.cfm\/program-grants-list-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Foundation<\/a>. One of their bigger initiatives is their promotion of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcav.org\/publications-briefs\/model_laws.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Model Laws<\/a> to state and local governments. This is especially true in California where they have been particularly active and many communities have adopted their Model Laws.<\/p>\n<p>In the video clip below, Leftwich is being interviewed by Omar Samaha. He is with MAIG&#8217;s National Initiative to Fix Gun Checks. Samaha&#8217;s sister was one of the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech. Samaha is something of a media darling like Colin Goddard and has done <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/story?id=7297745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;undercover buys&#8221; for ABC&#8217;s 20\/20<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Samaha asks Leftwich if she has seen a change in &#8220;gun violence&#8221; since California has adopted its restrictive gun control laws. Leftwich responds that &#8220;unfortunately there is not a lot of great data out there.&#8221; However, she does try to put a good spin on it saying that the rate of &#8220;gun violence&#8221; in California has gone down more than in the rest of the country. And then she makes this admission, &#8220;But it is always hard to prove causation because gun laws are a very complicated issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To recap, she says there is not good data, there are only a few studies, and that causation is hard to prove from the studies that do exist. This is a bit of a startling admission from a leading gun control advocate. <\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 344px; margin-top: 3px; text-align: right; width: 425px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/splicd.com\/\" style=\"color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">powered by <span style=\"color: #c85b00;\">Splicd.com<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>H\/T J.D. 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