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This piece looks the next wave of anti-gun propaganda....from medical professionals who are trying to turn violent crime into a disease so they can control guns .....
‘Public-Health Crisis’ of Gun Violence, Debunked | National Review
Under the guise of beneficence, public-health elites, who have fewer and fewer problems they can address via the passive route, have begun to make a broad range of false allegations when it comes to guns, employing deceptive but politically motivated and appealing analogies while ignoring the direction in which the data actually point.
Their reluctance to follow the evidence gives us a third kind of purported protection in which the code words “public-health crisis” and “epidemic” form the tip of a spear intruding into the lives of individuals to restrict lawful activities that the academy simply finds distasteful.
They have, in other words, co-opted language previously reserved for describing problems that require passive protections in order to agitate for active protections that infringe upon Americans’ constitutional rights.
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Of the 32,279 firearms deaths in the US in 2014, 586, or just 1.8 percent, were unintentional discharges. You are nearly six times more likely to die by accidental drowning and 54 times more likely to die in an accidental fall than you are to be accidentally killed by a gun. While accidental firearm deaths are tragic, they are exceedingly rare, and are best reduced through education about responsible gun ownership and use.
The vast majority of gun deaths — more than 98 percent of them — are intentional, whether they be suicide or homicide.
( 589 accidental gun deaths in 2015 vs. millions of new guns in private hands...)
Intentionality is the vital but completely ignored difference in the lie that connects automobile deaths and shooting deaths.
To acknowledge its importance in firearms deaths undoes the argument of the public-health avengers that guns, per se, are the problem, because intent is personal.
It requires examination of individuals and why they kill themselves or another person.
In all likelihood the circumstantial drivers are as unique as the individuals involved, making it nearly impossible to craft environmental solutions that would not be so broad as to intersect with the rights of law-abiding individuals who pose a threat to no one.
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The public-health community never discusses the fact that the violent-crime rate in the U.S. has dropped by half since 1990. The total number of fatal and non-fatal firearms events in the U.S. fell by 69 percent from 1993 to 2011.
The firearm-death rate, too, is down over that time, by nearly 40 percent. Why aren’t these massive improvements in public safety celebrated as public-health victories? Well, mostly because the public-health community had nothing to do with them. You cannot attract new grant money by pointing out a decline in the problem that you’ve so emotionally labeled as a public-health crisis and an epidemic. No one can say for sure why the U.S. is much less violent now than it was 25 years ago, but we can all be thankful that it is.
Read more at: ‘Public-Health Crisis’ of Gun Violence, Debunked | National Review
Read more at: ‘Public-Health Crisis’ of Gun Violence, Debunked | National Review
‘Public-Health Crisis’ of Gun Violence, Debunked | National Review
Under the guise of beneficence, public-health elites, who have fewer and fewer problems they can address via the passive route, have begun to make a broad range of false allegations when it comes to guns, employing deceptive but politically motivated and appealing analogies while ignoring the direction in which the data actually point.
Their reluctance to follow the evidence gives us a third kind of purported protection in which the code words “public-health crisis” and “epidemic” form the tip of a spear intruding into the lives of individuals to restrict lawful activities that the academy simply finds distasteful.
They have, in other words, co-opted language previously reserved for describing problems that require passive protections in order to agitate for active protections that infringe upon Americans’ constitutional rights.
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Of the 32,279 firearms deaths in the US in 2014, 586, or just 1.8 percent, were unintentional discharges. You are nearly six times more likely to die by accidental drowning and 54 times more likely to die in an accidental fall than you are to be accidentally killed by a gun. While accidental firearm deaths are tragic, they are exceedingly rare, and are best reduced through education about responsible gun ownership and use.
The vast majority of gun deaths — more than 98 percent of them — are intentional, whether they be suicide or homicide.
( 589 accidental gun deaths in 2015 vs. millions of new guns in private hands...)
Intentionality is the vital but completely ignored difference in the lie that connects automobile deaths and shooting deaths.
To acknowledge its importance in firearms deaths undoes the argument of the public-health avengers that guns, per se, are the problem, because intent is personal.
It requires examination of individuals and why they kill themselves or another person.
In all likelihood the circumstantial drivers are as unique as the individuals involved, making it nearly impossible to craft environmental solutions that would not be so broad as to intersect with the rights of law-abiding individuals who pose a threat to no one.
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The public-health community never discusses the fact that the violent-crime rate in the U.S. has dropped by half since 1990. The total number of fatal and non-fatal firearms events in the U.S. fell by 69 percent from 1993 to 2011.
The firearm-death rate, too, is down over that time, by nearly 40 percent. Why aren’t these massive improvements in public safety celebrated as public-health victories? Well, mostly because the public-health community had nothing to do with them. You cannot attract new grant money by pointing out a decline in the problem that you’ve so emotionally labeled as a public-health crisis and an epidemic. No one can say for sure why the U.S. is much less violent now than it was 25 years ago, but we can all be thankful that it is.
Read more at: ‘Public-Health Crisis’ of Gun Violence, Debunked | National Review
Read more at: ‘Public-Health Crisis’ of Gun Violence, Debunked | National Review
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