The National Rifle Association is no doubt grateful for the sensation it caused recently with a video featuring propagandist Dana Loesch.

In 2015, Loesch starred in another NRA video on the depredations of the “godless left.” In her telling, liberals sought nothing less than the extermination of decent Americans, attacking not only “our right to believe,” Loesch said, but “our right to survive.”

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Researchers led by Stanford Law professor John Donohue evaluated crime data from 1977 to 2014, comparing the majority of states that let residents carry firearms without demonstrating a particular need (so-called “shall issue” right-to-carry states) against those with stricter gun regulations.

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“Ten years after the adoption of RTC laws,” Donohue’s report states, “violent crime is estimated to be 13-15 percent higher than it would have been without the RTC law.” The increase in crime was so pronounced, in fact, that right-to-carry states would need to double their prison populations to counteract it.

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