"Gun Violence" Research
In 1979, gun control supporters within the U.S. Public Health Service started believing they could increase support for gun control by defining firearms as a disease. Studies conducted by gun control supporters in the public health field in the 1980s and early 1990s became the basis of anti-gun activists' claim that having a gun at home increases danger rather than provides protection.
In 1993, Dr. Mark Rosenberg, of the Service's Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said that the Clinton administration wanted to "reframe the debate" about gun control to portray guns as a public health menace. In 1996, Congress prohibited the CDC from using taxpayer funds to underwrite research advocating gun control. In 2013, President Obama asked Congress to appropriate $10 million for anti-gun research, but Congress has wisely refused to do so.
Gun control supporters in the public health field claim that gun violence is an "epidemic," but gun violence is alien to most people's experiences and the nation's murder rate has been cut by more than half since 1991, and in 2013 fell to perhaps an all-time low, as Americans' firearm acquisitions have soared.
Friday, February 10, 2017
We hear it all the time from the anti-gun folks: firearms are a “public health” crisis. The proponents ...
Friday, January 20, 2017
The researchers, from dozens of universities, met at a conference on gun violence just days after the November ...
Thursday, October 27, 2016
On October 15, a group of researchers at the Michael Bloomberg funded Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
A recent story (“Connecticut among five safest states for gun violence,” October 12) cites a sham study by ...
Friday, September 30, 2016
In mid-September, Tennessee gun control group Safe Tennessee Project trumpeted a disturbing new statistic gleaned from the Centers ...
Friday, September 16, 2016
Michael Bloomberg probably realizes he has only so many years left to spread around his enormous fortune to ...
Friday, September 16, 2016
The university announced the gift Thursday. Officials say the money will create the Bloomberg American Health Initiative.The initiative ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
The UC Davis Medical Center will house the nation’s first state-funded firearm violence research center, an effort backed ...
Friday, August 19, 2016
Gun ban advocates, knowing their goals aren’t especially popular with the American people, have in recent years tried to ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Last month I advised supporters of federal gun research to give the public concrete reasons to believe the ...
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