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Medical Evidence: Gun Control Won't Solve Crime
Wes Vernon
Saturday, April 7, 2001
WASHINGTON – The gun control lobby has just received a stunning setback in a
new article appearing in the spring issue of the Medical Sentinel.
Written by Miguel A. Faria, M.D., the study finds that most gun violence
studies of the past two decades are based on flawed methodology and unduly
influenced by political agendas, leading to biased and incorrect
conclusions.
The Medical Sentinel, the official journal of the Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons, argues in effect that many of those who conducted
the studies decided in advance what they wanted to prove, and then were
"prejudiced" by that goal. Thus, Dr. Faria argues, the studies were not
objective at all.
The doctor, who is editor in chief of the Sentinel, debunks a number of
incorrect, widely accepted claims "promoted by anti-gun interest groups
based on tainted studies."
Faria's findings are that:
Women in particular are NOT in more danger if they carry or own guns.
The ease of access to or availability of guns is NOT the cause of crime.
Mass killings would NOT be avoided if guns were not available.
And finally, gun violence is NOT the leading accidental cause of death in
children.
The health establishment's stated objective in 1979, according to Faria, was
"total eradication of handguns in the United States," and the follow-up
studies were influenced by that objective.
The doctor faults "those in public health with a proclivity toward the
promulgation of preordained research such as the gun and violence research
conducted by many investigators with a gun control agenda and disseminated
in the medical journals."
"Much of this information is tainted, result-oriented, and based on what can
only be characterized as poor science," he concluded.
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