Agreed. Calling gun violence a public health problem and calling gun control, "gun safety" is a propaganda technique to mask the fact that additional gun control increase the power of the state and will be enforced by criminal sanctions. Do we need more criminal cases in our courts, more people in our prisons, more unlawful search and seizures? How many of the defendants will be harmless people? How much will they infringe on the 2nd Amendment and the fundamental right of self-defense? See the book "Law Abiding Criminals" and my article, "Enforcement Problems of Gun Control, A Victimless Crime Analysis." Ray Kessler ________________________________________ From: firearmsregprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [firearmsregprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Dean Cascio [dean_cas...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 2:28 AM To: g...@gunfacts.info; 'firearmsregprof' Subject: RE: Another study considers gun violence as a public health issue
So true. Thank you. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android<https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:53 PM, g...@gunfacts.info <g...@gunfacts.info> wrote: Just when I thought the politicization of science could not get stranger … it does. Summarizing the abstract, they say that because the Feds do not fund a lot of gun violence research (for well-known historical reasons) this is a problem. I find this to be an odd assumption. Frankly, gun violence and gun control policy is one of the most insanely over studied topics in criminology. Start at the Bureau of Justice Statistics and search on "firearm violence". Thousands of studies, reports and raw data tables to the taking. Next, do a Google Scholar search for the same and similar terms, adding the word "criminology" (this helps you avoid the intellectual malpractice committed by doctors posing as criminologists). The number of peer review papers is nearly unmeasurable. Now add up all the books published by criminologists and economists on the topic. Some of these tomes cover every angle of the field. Federal research dollars is not a relevant proxy for the depth or quality of available research. The paper’s methodology appears to be flawed from the start. Guy Smith g...@gunfacts.info www.linkedin.com/in/gunfacts/ From: firearmsregprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:firearmsregprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Henry Schaffer Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:45 PM To: firearmsregprof <firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu> Subject: Another study considers gun violence as a public health issue This on the air this evening on NPR's All Things Considered http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/03/508037642/study-says-gun-violence-should-be-treated-as-a-public-health-crisis It has a link which is supposed to go to the study in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Assoc) but mistakenly links to a 30 year old study. NPR says, "David Stark, one of the study's leaders ..." - so I searched JAMA for his name, and found this just published article: ------------------ JAMAResearch LetterJanuary 3, 2017 Funding and Publication of Research on Gun Violence and Other Leading Causes of DeathDavid E. Stark, MD, MS; Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD JAMA. 2017; 317(1):84-85. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.16215 This study uses Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mortality and federal agency research funding data to compare funding for and publication of gun violence research with that for 30 other leading causes of death in the United States. Abstract: The United States has the highest rate of gun-related deaths among industrialized countries, with more than 30 000 fatalities annually.1 To date, research on gun violence has been limited. A 1996 congressional appropriations bill stipulated that “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”2 Similar restrictions were subsequently extended to other agencies (including the National Institutes of Health), and although the legislation does not ban gun-related research outright, it has been described as casting a pall over the research community.2,3 This study sought to determine whether funding and publication of gun violence research are disproportionately low relative to the mortality rate from this cause. --------------- which doesn't quite fit the story of what I heard on the air, (which had a lot about violence in social networks in Chicago- and there is no link the the recording of the on-air item. Maybe there will be tomorrow?) but it does have that Figure 1 shown on the web. --henry schaffer _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
