[lbo-talk] Collective idiocy....

[Wojtek S]

This is a gem, Doug.  Thanks for posting. Now I understand why there is no
evidence of a relationship between gun ownership and death and injury.
Censored by the US gun lobby.

Wojtek
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On Dec 21, 2012 9:05 PM, "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 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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