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go and look at the CDC research studies and you will see...
...Nothing, just gathering statistics...no, wait, "According to the research, 39,773 people were fatally shot in 2017, a figure that has grown by more than 10,000 people since 1999. CDC data going back to 1979 shows that last year had the highest rates of gun deaths in nearly 40 years." Gun Deaths in the U.S. Are at Their Highest Rates in Decades, CDC Says
Lack of any control over firearms is "detrimental" to public health, wouldn't you agree?
Didn't you claim in post #92 that the CDC wasn't doing gun research?
You can't afford both the police and your government healthcare...
Didn't you claim in post #92 that the CDC wasn't doing gun research?
No.
“So we looked at the question, does having a gun at home protect your family or not?” Dr. Rosenberg recalled.
He was amazed by the answer. The landmark study in 1993 showed that bringing a gun into the home puts everyone at much greater risk.
“They were saying if you want to keep your family safe, if you are a real man, you will have a gun at home,” Dr. Rosenberg said. “Bringing the gun not only didn’t protect you, it put you at much, much greater risk.”
To this day, gun rights advocates dispute the study’s findings. The N.R.A. pushed Congress in 1995 to stop the C.D.C. from spending taxpayer money on research that advocated gun control. Congress then passed the Dickey Amendment in 1996, and cut funding that effectively ended the C.D.C.’s study of gun violence as a public health issue.
Congress Quashed Research Into Gun Violence. Since Then, 600,000 People Have Been Shot.
Didn't you claim in post #92 that the CDC wasn't doing gun research?
No.
“So we looked at the question, does having a gun at home protect your family or not?” Dr. Rosenberg recalled.
He was amazed by the answer. The landmark study in 1993 showed that bringing a gun into the home puts everyone at much greater risk.
“They were saying if you want to keep your family safe, if you are a real man, you will have a gun at home,” Dr. Rosenberg said. “Bringing the gun not only didn’t protect you, it put you at much, much greater risk.”
To this day, gun rights advocates dispute the study’s findings. The N.R.A. pushed Congress in 1995 to stop the C.D.C. from spending taxpayer money on research that advocated gun control. Congress then passed the Dickey Amendment in 1996, and cut funding that effectively ended the C.D.C.’s study of gun violence as a public health issue.
Congress Quashed Research Into Gun Violence. Since Then, 600,000 People Have Been Shot.
"17.25 million Americans carry guns". Really? Without gun control, how do you know?
... and these are unbiased sources? I thnik not.Didn't you claim in post #92 that the CDC wasn't doing gun research?
No.
“So we looked at the question, does having a gun at home protect your family or not?” Dr. Rosenberg recalled.
He was amazed by the answer. The landmark study in 1993 showed that bringing a gun into the home puts everyone at much greater risk.
“They were saying if you want to keep your family safe, if you are a real man, you will have a gun at home,” Dr. Rosenberg said. “Bringing the gun not only didn’t protect you, it put you at much, much greater risk.”
To this day, gun rights advocates dispute the study’s findings. The N.R.A. pushed Congress in 1995 to stop the C.D.C. from spending taxpayer money on research that advocated gun control. Congress then passed the Dickey Amendment in 1996, and cut funding that effectively ended the C.D.C.’s study of gun violence as a public health issue.
Congress Quashed Research Into Gun Violence. Since Then, 600,000 People Have Been Shot.
And the research into guns in the home was flawed from the start.....as I keep showing joe, the other anti-gunner....the Kellerman research looked at violent homes instead of normal homes....
You really should catch up to the fake research before you post.....
Public Health and Gun Control: A Review
In 1993, in his landmark and much cited NEJM article (and the research, again, heavily funded by the CDC), Dr. Kellermann attempted to show again that guns in the home are a greater risk to the victims than to the assailants.4
Despite valid criticisms by reputable scholars of his previous works (including the 1986 study), Dr. Kellermann ignored the criticisms and again used the same methodology.
He also used study populations with disproportionately high rates of serious psychosocial dysfunction from three selected state counties, known to be unrepresentative of the general U.S. population.
For example,
53 percent of the case subjects had a history of a household member being arrested,
31 percent had a household history of illicit drug use,
32 percent had a household member hit or hurt in a family fight,
and 17 percent had a family member hurt so seriously in a domestic altercation that prompt medical attention was required.
Moreover, both the case studies and control groups in this analysis had a very high incidence of financial instability.
In fact, in this study, gun ownership, the supposedly high risk factor for homicide was not one of the most strongly associated factors for being murdered.
Drinking, illicit drugs, living alone, history of family violence, living in a rented home were all greater individual risk factors for being murdered than a gun in the home.
One must conclude there is no basis to apply the conclusions of this study to the general population.
All of these are factors that, as Dr. Suter pointed out, "would expectedly be associated with higher rates of violence and homicide."5
It goes without saying, the results of such a study on gun homicides, selecting this sort of unrepresentative population sample, nullify the authors' generalizations, and their preordained, conclusions can not be extrapolated to the general population.
Moreover, although the 1993 New England Journal of Medicine study purported to show that the homicide victims were killed with a gun ordinarily kept in the home, the fact is that as Kates and associates point out 71.1 percent of the victims were killed by assailants who did not live in the victims¹ household using guns presumably not kept in that home.6
While Kellermann and associates began with 444 cases of homicides in the home, cases were dropped from the study for a variety of reasons, and in the end, only 316 matched pairs were used in the final analysis, representing only 71.2 percent of the original 444 homicide cases.
This reduction increased tremendously the chance for sampling bias. Analysis of why 28.8 percent of the cases were dropped would have helped ascertain if the study was compromised by the existence of such biases, but Dr. Kellermann, in an unprecedented move, refused to release his data and make it available for other researchers to analyze.
Likewise, Prof. Gary Kleck of Florida State University has written me that knowledge about what guns were kept in the home is essential, but this data in his study was never released by Dr. Kellermann: "The most likely bit of data that he would want to withhold is information as to whether the gun used in the gun homicides was kept in the home of the victim."*
As Kates and associates point out, "The validity of the NEJM 1993 study¹s conclusions depend on the control group matching the homicide cases in every way (except, of course, for the occurrence of the homicide)."6
However, in this study, the controls collected did not match the cases in many ways (i.e., for example, in the amount of substance abuse, single parent versus two parent homes, etc.) contributing to further untoward effects, and decreasing the inference that can legitimately be drawn from the data of this study. Be that as it may, "The conclusion that gun ownership is a risk factor for homicide derives from the finding of a gun in 45.4 percent of the homicide case households, but in only 35.8 percent of the control household. Whether that finding is accurate, however, depends on the truthfulness of control group interviewees in admitting the presence of a gun or guns in the home."6
And more ......
The Fallacy of "43 to 1"
The source of the 43-to-1 ratio is a study of firearm deaths in Seattle homes, conducted by doctors Arthur L. Kellermann and Donald T. Reay ("Protection or Peril?: An Analysis of Firearm-Related Deaths in the Home," New England Journal of Medicine, 1986). Kellerman and Reay totaled up the numbers of firearms murders, suicides, and fatal accidents, and then compared that number to the number of firearm deaths that were classified as justifiable homicides. The ratio of murder, suicide, and accidental death to the justifiable homicides was 43 to 1.
This is what the anti-gun lobbies call "scientific" proof that people (except government employees and security guards) should not have guns.
Of the gun deaths in the home, the vast majority are suicides. In the 43-to-1 figure, suicides account for nearly all the 43 unjustifiable deaths.
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So by counting accidents and suicides, the 43-to-1 factoid ends up including a very large number of fatalities that would have occurred anyway, even if there were no gun in the home.
Now, how about the self-defense homicides, which Kellermann and Reay found to be so rare? Well, the reason that they found such a low total was that they excluded many cases of lawful self-defense. Kellermann and Reay did not count in the self-defense total of any of the cases where a person who had shot an attacker was acquitted on grounds of self-defense, or cases where a conviction was reversed on appeal on grounds related to self-defense. Yet 40% of women who appeal their murder convictions have the conviction reversed on appeal. ("Fighting Back," Time, Jan. 18, 1993.)
In short, the 43-to-1 figure is based on the totally implausible assumption that all the people who die in gun suicides and gun accidents would not kill themselves with something else if guns were unavailable. The figure is also based on a drastic undercount of the number of lawful self-defense homicides.
Moreover, counting dead criminals to measure the efficacy of civilian handgun ownership is ridiculous. Do we measure the efficacy of our police forces by counting how many people the police lawfully kill every year? The benefits of the police — and of home handgun ownership — are not measured by the number of dead criminals, but by the number of crimes prevented. Simplistic counting of corpses tells us nothing about the real safety value of gun ownership for protection.
Didn't you claim in post #92 that the CDC wasn't doing gun research?
No.
“So we looked at the question, does having a gun at home protect your family or not?” Dr. Rosenberg recalled.
He was amazed by the answer. The landmark study in 1993 showed that bringing a gun into the home puts everyone at much greater risk.
“They were saying if you want to keep your family safe, if you are a real man, you will have a gun at home,” Dr. Rosenberg said. “Bringing the gun not only didn’t protect you, it put you at much, much greater risk.”
To this day, gun rights advocates dispute the study’s findings. The N.R.A. pushed Congress in 1995 to stop the C.D.C. from spending taxpayer money on research that advocated gun control. Congress then passed the Dickey Amendment in 1996, and cut funding that effectively ended the C.D.C.’s study of gun violence as a public health issue.
Congress Quashed Research Into Gun Violence. Since Then, 600,000 People Have Been Shot.
... and these are unbiased sources? I thnik not.Didn't you claim in post #92 that the CDC wasn't doing gun research?
No.
“So we looked at the question, does having a gun at home protect your family or not?” Dr. Rosenberg recalled.
He was amazed by the answer. The landmark study in 1993 showed that bringing a gun into the home puts everyone at much greater risk.
“They were saying if you want to keep your family safe, if you are a real man, you will have a gun at home,” Dr. Rosenberg said. “Bringing the gun not only didn’t protect you, it put you at much, much greater risk.”
To this day, gun rights advocates dispute the study’s findings. The N.R.A. pushed Congress in 1995 to stop the C.D.C. from spending taxpayer money on research that advocated gun control. Congress then passed the Dickey Amendment in 1996, and cut funding that effectively ended the C.D.C.’s study of gun violence as a public health issue.
Congress Quashed Research Into Gun Violence. Since Then, 600,000 People Have Been Shot.
And the research into guns in the home was flawed from the start.....as I keep showing joe, the other anti-gunner....the Kellerman research looked at violent homes instead of normal homes....
You really should catch up to the fake research before you post.....
Public Health and Gun Control: A Review
In 1993, in his landmark and much cited NEJM article (and the research, again, heavily funded by the CDC), Dr. Kellermann attempted to show again that guns in the home are a greater risk to the victims than to the assailants.4
Despite valid criticisms by reputable scholars of his previous works (including the 1986 study), Dr. Kellermann ignored the criticisms and again used the same methodology.
He also used study populations with disproportionately high rates of serious psychosocial dysfunction from three selected state counties, known to be unrepresentative of the general U.S. population.
For example,
53 percent of the case subjects had a history of a household member being arrested,
31 percent had a household history of illicit drug use,
32 percent had a household member hit or hurt in a family fight,
and 17 percent had a family member hurt so seriously in a domestic altercation that prompt medical attention was required.
Moreover, both the case studies and control groups in this analysis had a very high incidence of financial instability.
In fact, in this study, gun ownership, the supposedly high risk factor for homicide was not one of the most strongly associated factors for being murdered.
Drinking, illicit drugs, living alone, history of family violence, living in a rented home were all greater individual risk factors for being murdered than a gun in the home.
One must conclude there is no basis to apply the conclusions of this study to the general population.
All of these are factors that, as Dr. Suter pointed out, "would expectedly be associated with higher rates of violence and homicide."5
It goes without saying, the results of such a study on gun homicides, selecting this sort of unrepresentative population sample, nullify the authors' generalizations, and their preordained, conclusions can not be extrapolated to the general population.
Moreover, although the 1993 New England Journal of Medicine study purported to show that the homicide victims were killed with a gun ordinarily kept in the home, the fact is that as Kates and associates point out 71.1 percent of the victims were killed by assailants who did not live in the victims¹ household using guns presumably not kept in that home.6
While Kellermann and associates began with 444 cases of homicides in the home, cases were dropped from the study for a variety of reasons, and in the end, only 316 matched pairs were used in the final analysis, representing only 71.2 percent of the original 444 homicide cases.
This reduction increased tremendously the chance for sampling bias. Analysis of why 28.8 percent of the cases were dropped would have helped ascertain if the study was compromised by the existence of such biases, but Dr. Kellermann, in an unprecedented move, refused to release his data and make it available for other researchers to analyze.
Likewise, Prof. Gary Kleck of Florida State University has written me that knowledge about what guns were kept in the home is essential, but this data in his study was never released by Dr. Kellermann: "The most likely bit of data that he would want to withhold is information as to whether the gun used in the gun homicides was kept in the home of the victim."*
As Kates and associates point out, "The validity of the NEJM 1993 study¹s conclusions depend on the control group matching the homicide cases in every way (except, of course, for the occurrence of the homicide)."6
However, in this study, the controls collected did not match the cases in many ways (i.e., for example, in the amount of substance abuse, single parent versus two parent homes, etc.) contributing to further untoward effects, and decreasing the inference that can legitimately be drawn from the data of this study. Be that as it may, "The conclusion that gun ownership is a risk factor for homicide derives from the finding of a gun in 45.4 percent of the homicide case households, but in only 35.8 percent of the control household. Whether that finding is accurate, however, depends on the truthfulness of control group interviewees in admitting the presence of a gun or guns in the home."6
And more ......
The Fallacy of "43 to 1"
The source of the 43-to-1 ratio is a study of firearm deaths in Seattle homes, conducted by doctors Arthur L. Kellermann and Donald T. Reay ("Protection or Peril?: An Analysis of Firearm-Related Deaths in the Home," New England Journal of Medicine, 1986). Kellerman and Reay totaled up the numbers of firearms murders, suicides, and fatal accidents, and then compared that number to the number of firearm deaths that were classified as justifiable homicides. The ratio of murder, suicide, and accidental death to the justifiable homicides was 43 to 1.
This is what the anti-gun lobbies call "scientific" proof that people (except government employees and security guards) should not have guns.
Of the gun deaths in the home, the vast majority are suicides. In the 43-to-1 figure, suicides account for nearly all the 43 unjustifiable deaths.
-------
So by counting accidents and suicides, the 43-to-1 factoid ends up including a very large number of fatalities that would have occurred anyway, even if there were no gun in the home.
Now, how about the self-defense homicides, which Kellermann and Reay found to be so rare? Well, the reason that they found such a low total was that they excluded many cases of lawful self-defense. Kellermann and Reay did not count in the self-defense total of any of the cases where a person who had shot an attacker was acquitted on grounds of self-defense, or cases where a conviction was reversed on appeal on grounds related to self-defense. Yet 40% of women who appeal their murder convictions have the conviction reversed on appeal. ("Fighting Back," Time, Jan. 18, 1993.)
In short, the 43-to-1 figure is based on the totally implausible assumption that all the people who die in gun suicides and gun accidents would not kill themselves with something else if guns were unavailable. The figure is also based on a drastic undercount of the number of lawful self-defense homicides.
Moreover, counting dead criminals to measure the efficacy of civilian handgun ownership is ridiculous. Do we measure the efficacy of our police forces by counting how many people the police lawfully kill every year? The benefits of the police — and of home handgun ownership — are not measured by the number of dead criminals, but by the number of crimes prevented. Simplistic counting of corpses tells us nothing about the real safety value of gun ownership for protection.
"17.25 million Americans carry guns". Really? Without gun control, how do you know?
States that have permit requirements.......so that number is even higher as several states don't require a permit to carry a gun......and yet, with all those people carrying guns....law abiding people......our gun crime rate has gone down 75%....how do you explain that? With all of those people carrying guns, our gun murder rate has gone down 49%...how do you explain that? With all of those people carrying guns, our violent crime rate has gone down 72%...how do you explain that?
Thank you for bringing that number up for discussion, considering it shows your arguments for gun control have no basis in truth, facts or reality...very brave of you...
"17.25 million Americans carry guns". Really? Without gun control, how do you know?
States that have permit requirements.......so that number is even higher as several states don't require a permit to carry a gun......and yet, with all those people carrying guns....law abiding people......our gun crime rate has gone down 75%....how do you explain that? With all of those people carrying guns, our gun murder rate has gone down 49%...how do you explain that? With all of those people carrying guns, our violent crime rate has gone down 72%...how do you explain that?
Thank you for bringing that number up for discussion, considering it shows your arguments for gun control have no basis in truth, facts or reality...very brave of you...
In other words, you have no idea how many people in you country own guns, posession of a permit (or lack of one) does not mean gun ownership.
"17.25 million Americans carry guns". Really? Without gun control, how do you know?
States that have permit requirements.......so that number is even higher as several states don't require a permit to carry a gun......and yet, with all those people carrying guns....law abiding people......our gun crime rate has gone down 75%....how do you explain that? With all of those people carrying guns, our gun murder rate has gone down 49%...how do you explain that? With all of those people carrying guns, our violent crime rate has gone down 72%...how do you explain that?
Thank you for bringing that number up for discussion, considering it shows your arguments for gun control have no basis in truth, facts or reality...very brave of you...
In other words, you have no idea how many people in you country own guns, posession of a permit (or lack of one) does not mean gun ownership.
In other words, you have no idea how many people in you country own guns, posession of a permit (or lack of one) does not mean gun ownership.
I dont think you need an especially big brain to understand what is going on. Anything slightly bigger than a conservatives will do.
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Strange Tommy Tainant, is it not?
Where does that indicate that he is, in any way, some sort of economic brain?
Nope.....we have more than enough control over guns, what we lack is control over gun criminals. This problem stems from our democrat party......they release violent, repeat gun offenders, the ones doing the shooting, over and over again.
And of course, they used suicides to get that number up....a dishonest action on their part to push their anti-self defense agenda.....
Here is the true measure...more Americans own and carry guns, while our crime rates drop.
You really should catch up to the fake research before you post.....
You can keep pushing the lie, but the internet shows it is a lie....
Yes.....they went to all the work of getting a permit to carry a gun, just to not carry a gun......this kind of thinking is how you lost your Empire.....
Nope.....we have more than enough control over guns, what we lack is control over gun criminals. This problem stems from our democrat party......they release violent, repeat gun offenders, the ones doing the shooting, over and over again.
Really? So do Republican controlled cities by the looks of things, cities like Jackson, Baton Rouge, Little Rock, Cincinnati, Dayton, Kansas, etc all have higher homicide rates than Chicago according to this article in 2016. Meet the Republicans representing cities with a higher murder rate than Chicago
And of course, they used suicides to get that number up....a dishonest action on their part to push their anti-self defense agenda.....
Suicide with a gun is a valid form of gun violence. Suicide is a mental health issue, remove guns and it makes it harder to kill yourself, giving you or your fasmilly time to seek help.
Here is the true measure...more Americans own and carry guns, while our crime rates drop.
Do they?
"According to our partners at USAFacts, a non-partisan, not-for-profit civic initiative aimed at making government data accessible and understandable, reported violent crime in the U.S. rose in both 2015 and 2016 (the most recent year for which comprehensive data are available). Violent crime includes aggravated assault, robbery, murder, non-negligent manslaughter, and rape.
Aggravated assault is the most common crime, with a rate nearly five times higher than murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Robberies and assaults have greatly decreased since the early 1990s, while the murder rate has not changed significantly since 1980, according to USAFacts.
The rate of reported rapes had also been holding steady since 1980, but preliminary data indicate that it went up in 2017."
U.S. Violent Crime on the Rise: Where and Why
You really should catch up to the fake research before you post.....
Oh good grief, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, another "unbiased" source? Association of American Physicians and Surgeons - Wikipedia
"Kellerman's study was peer reviewed and found to be accurate. Kellermann is known for his research on the epidemiology of firearm-related injuries and deaths in the US. In a 1995 interview, Kellermann said he saw firearm injuries not as random, unavoidable acts but as preventable public health priority.[6] Kellermann's studies, which indicate an increased risk of mortality associated with gun ownership, have been disputed by gun rights organizations, in particular by the National Rifle Association; although Kellermann's findings have been supported by a large body of peer-reviewed research finding that increasing gun ownership is associated with increased rates of homicide and violence.[7]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kellermann
You can keep pushing the lie, but the internet shows it is a lie....
Congress Quashed Research Into Gun Violence. Since Then, 600,000 People Have Been Shot.
Yes.....they went to all the work of getting a permit to carry a gun, just to not carry a gun......this kind of thinking is how you lost your Empire.....
I have a private pilot's licence but I don't own an aircraft, many people have driver's licences but don't own cars. Gun permit holders may have sold their guns but still have a permit, that's your problem over there, you just don't know how many people own guns, and people are killed as a result.
Nope.....we have more than enough control over guns, what we lack is control over gun criminals. This problem stems from our democrat party......they release violent, repeat gun offenders, the ones doing the shooting, over and over again.
Really? So do Republican controlled cities by the looks of things, cities like Jackson, Baton Rouge, Little Rock, Cincinnati, Dayton, Kansas, etc all have higher homicide rates than Chicago according to this article in 2016. Meet the Republicans representing cities with a higher murder rate than Chicago
And of course, they used suicides to get that number up....a dishonest action on their part to push their anti-self defense agenda.....
Suicide with a gun is a valid form of gun violence. Suicide is a mental health issue, remove guns and it makes it harder to kill yourself, giving you or your fasmilly time to seek help.
Here is the true measure...more Americans own and carry guns, while our crime rates drop.
Do they?
"According to our partners at USAFacts, a non-partisan, not-for-profit civic initiative aimed at making government data accessible and understandable, reported violent crime in the U.S. rose in both 2015 and 2016 (the most recent year for which comprehensive data are available). Violent crime includes aggravated assault, robbery, murder, non-negligent manslaughter, and rape.
Aggravated assault is the most common crime, with a rate nearly five times higher than murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Robberies and assaults have greatly decreased since the early 1990s, while the murder rate has not changed significantly since 1980, according to USAFacts.
The rate of reported rapes had also been holding steady since 1980, but preliminary data indicate that it went up in 2017."
U.S. Violent Crime on the Rise: Where and Why
You really should catch up to the fake research before you post.....
Oh good grief, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, another "unbiased" source? Association of American Physicians and Surgeons - Wikipedia
"Kellerman's study was peer reviewed and found to be accurate. Kellermann is known for his research on the epidemiology of firearm-related injuries and deaths in the US. In a 1995 interview, Kellermann said he saw firearm injuries not as random, unavoidable acts but as preventable public health priority.[6] Kellermann's studies, which indicate an increased risk of mortality associated with gun ownership, have been disputed by gun rights organizations, in particular by the National Rifle Association; although Kellermann's findings have been supported by a large body of peer-reviewed research finding that increasing gun ownership is associated with increased rates of homicide and violence.[7]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kellermann
You can keep pushing the lie, but the internet shows it is a lie....
Congress Quashed Research Into Gun Violence. Since Then, 600,000 People Have Been Shot.
Yes.....they went to all the work of getting a permit to carry a gun, just to not carry a gun......this kind of thinking is how you lost your Empire.....
I have a private pilot's licence but I don't own an aircraft, many people have driver's licences but don't own cars. Gun permit holders may have sold their guns but still have a permit, that's your problem over there, you just don't know how many people own guns, and people are killed as a result.