[lbo-talk] Collective idiocy....

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 21 17:58:26 PST 2012


I've been letting this all go by without comment, but a few interesting facts I cam across today:

How the NRA et al suppressed research into gun violence: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1487470.

Which includes references to articles including:

People carrying a gun 5x more likely to be shot than the unarmed: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2008.143099

Purchase of a gun doubles risk of death from suicide or homicide: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.87.6.974

Research of that sort can no longer be done because of federal and state restrictions won by the gun lobby.

Doug



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