We’ve all heard this load of pure, pungent Oscar Mayer processed meat product for decades. Federal law (in the form of the Dickey Amendment) prevents research into “gun violence!” The Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex loves to claim that we can’t possibly do anything about the (non-existent) gun violence epidemic in this country if we can’t … Read more
Vapers may be new to this, but some of us are not. Heads Should Roll at CDC after Botched Vaping Investigation It should have been obvious to CDC that regular e-cigarettes were not and could not have been causing these illnesses. Commercial nicotine e-cigarettes have been on the American and European markets for more than … Read more
By Elizabeth McGuigan What happens when a virulent anti-gun activist gets ahold of a journal’s entire October issue? We get headlines like: Study: U.S. Gun Deaths Surge, Except for Two States With Restrictive Gun Laws, just days after headlines such as: Homicides, other violent crime fell again in 2018, new FBI data shows and FBI: Southern States See Largest Drop in … Read more
ED: The following is text of a presentation given at this past weekend’s Gun Rights Policy Conference presented by the Second Amendment Foundation and CCRKBA. By Dr. Sean Brodale From the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics, Gun violence and trauma surgery: “Mass shootings account for less than 1 percent of all gun-related deaths in the … Read more
By NRA-ILA Can we finally put the claim that “gun violence” research is underfunded to rest? The Bloomberg Professor of American Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Daniel Webster, and his colleagues at the Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research launched their much anticipated massive, open online course “Reducing Gun Violence in America: Evidence for Change” … Read more
If you tell enough lies often enough about guns and your goals or civilian disarmament, some people begin to believe them. Apparently. Gov. Phil Murphy insisted the state is not against guns. But he said the only choice for New Jersey and other states is to work on preventing gun violence on their own since Congress … Read more
By NRA-ILA The New York Times – the “paper of record” – reports that “Gun Research is Suddenly Hot.” While we’re happy to see the Times has finally acknowledged that “gun research” can survive federal restrictions on taxpayer funded gun control advocacy, there are necessary caveats here. The volume of “gun violence research” may be increasing, but the … Read more
By Robert B. Young, MD Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership sees lots of “studies” marketed as gun control justification that we don’t have time to report on in detail, though they all should be. Thankfully, they often are reviewed by other Second Amendment advocates. We thought we’d catch up on a few. “California’s comprehensive background check … Read more
How many times have the anti-gunners repeated this lie: NRA-purchased politicians are keeping the CDC from studying “gun violence!” It’s simply not true, and it never has been. Opponents of the Second Amendment who are eager to impose as many restrictions as possible on firearms falsely claim that a measure enacted in 1996 called the … Read more
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