NYU Tandon professor applies scientific models to firearm issue
From brooklyneagle.com
The debate surrounding gun violence and gun control constantly references the perceived encroachment upon citizens’ rights to bear arms, as proven in the recent Supreme Court decision striking down New York firearm licensing laws. However, information about firearm ownership and its relation to crime and violence requires “highly-resolved” data on firearm possession, and without a federal registry to comprehensively show information about who owns guns, there is no established measurement of firearm prevalence.
Maurizio Porfiri, an author of more than 350 journals and the Director of the Dynamical Systems Laboratory & Institute Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, together with his team takes two available sources, background checks per capita and suicides committed with a firearm in the respective state, and predicts trends in firearm prevalence.