You know how the NRA says that the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun?

If you’re keeping score, the bad guys are winning.

A new study has found that around 60 more people have been murdered each year since the state of Missouri made it easier to buy a handguns without going through a background check.

And that shocks who?

The Show-Me state, huh?

“Coincident exactly with the policy change, there was an immediate upward trajectory to the homicide rates in Missouri,”Webster told BBC. “That upward trajectory did not happen with homicides that did not involve guns; it did not occur to any neighbouring state; the national trend was doing the opposite – it was trending downward; and it was not specific to one or two localities – it was, for the most part, state-wide.”

Researchers concluded that repealing the permit-to-purchase (PTP) law had given more murderers access to guns.

Ya think that might happen?

Thanks to Craig for the heads up.