U.S. Senators bent on more gun control used a hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee to attempt to yet again diagnose violent crime in America as a public health disease. Their only proposed cure, of course, is more gun control. In the eyes of one witness, it was another instance of gun control efforts putting their playlist … Read more
This Week in Gun Rights is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal, legislative and other news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. A Slew of Forced Reset Triggers Hit Market Many of us watched in agony as ATF again came after a popular product designed specifically to comply with the letter of … Read more
When you’ve totally lost control of the news cycle and you really need to change the subject, call your friends at CNN and tell them you’re putting the Weinstein strategy into effect. In restarting gun violence research, [CDC Director Dr. Rochelle] Walensky said she wants the CDC to find common ground with gun owners. “Let’s … Read more
By Gary Mauser Experts have squandered their credibility in recent public failures. The repeated misjudgments by public health experts over the past year have demonstrated that they didn’t know how to deal with the pandemic. Claiming their decisions were “backed by science,” public health experts recommended a bewildering maze of contradictory rules about masks, and closures of schools and small businesses … Read more
Health is a lot more than the absence of illness. And promoting health is a lot more than dealing with medical care. We have to be much more holistic in our approach. And gun violence prevention’s part of it. The effect of guns is not measured by the 41,000 deaths. That’s easy to measure, … Read more
“We don’t want no mo’ police.” “No Justice, No Peace.” “Mostly Peaceful Protests.” “Gun Control is a crisis of Public Health.” Just to remind us: the same people are making all four points. Completely without noticing how they interact. I don’t know how that is accomplished. Together it reads: We are going to let you … Read more
Myself as a public health person, I think you can’t run away from [gun violence]. I mean when you see people getting killed, I mean, in this last month it’s just been horrifying what’s happened. How can you say that’s not a public health issue? — Dr. Anthony Fauci
By Larry Keane President-elect Joe Biden didn’t take long in declaring a national health crisis to usher in emergency health epidemic gun control measures. With more than a month still left before he takes the oath of office, he laid the groundwork to seize on a “public health crisis” to push a gun grab. … Read more
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