[...] when comparing gun ownership to violence within a country, which often shows a "negative correlation."

"Where firearms are most dense, violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime
rates are highest," said the report.

This is the kind of study result you get when you ask honest questions.  Instead of "gun deaths" or "gun crimes", they actually looked at violence and crimes overall.

Of course if you ban guns, you'll have fewer crimes committed with them, but that does NOT look at the bigger picture:  self defense against crime and violence across the board.

As the Daily Caller noted, this explains why many shootings take place in "gun free zones" like schools
and movie theaters rather than in police stations or gun clubs.

The study pointed out that there are 40 states that allow citizens to carry concealed handguns, which the
authors said reduced murder and violent crime.

"Adoption of state laws permitting millions of qualified citizens to carry guns has not resulted in more murder
or violent crime in these states. Rather, adoption of these statutes has been followed by very significant
reductions in murder and violence in these states," wrote the researchers.

You would think Obama would have included this study in his Gun in America Side Show last Thursday, since he also is a Harvard grad.

Oh, wait ..... agenda.  Never mind!

The Harvard study concluded with the following warning to lawmakers who want to further regulate
gun ownership in the U.S.: "The burden of proof rests on the proponents of the more guns equal more death
and fewer guns equal less death mantra, especially since they argue public policy ought to be based on that
mantra. To bear that burden would at the very least require showing that a large number of nations with more
guns have more death and that nations that have imposed stringent gun controls have achieved substantial
reductions in criminal violence (or suicide). But those correlations are not observed when a large number of
nations are compared across the world."

http://www.hngn.com/articles/141814/20151020/harvard-gun-study-the-more-guns-the-less-criminal-activity.htm