The CDC nonfatal injury data is completely unreliable – as the CDC itself admits. Noted anti-gun researcher David Hemenway is quoted as saying, “No one should trust the CDC’s nonfatal firearm injury
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Most School Shootings in Federal Report Just Didn’t Happen
In an amusing story, a government-funded media outlet notorious for its liberal slant found that the overwhelming majority of school shootings listed in a federal report never occurred.
How a Botched Study Fooled the World About the U.S. Share of Mass Public Shootings
Lankford’s study reported that from 1966 to 2012, there were 90 public mass shooters in the U.S. & 202 in the rest of world. Lankford’s data represent a gross undercount of foreign attacks.
A Public Health Crisis Driven by Politics
The difference between gun violence and fatalities related to motor vehicle accidents or smoking is intent. Traffic accidents are just that – accidents.
Don’t Believe Fake Polls about the “Gun Control” Views of NRA Members
Time and again national pollsters insist on reporting how NRA members and other gun owners feel about gun control. Don’t believe a word of it.
Advocacy-Fueled Hysteria Hides the Truth on School Violence
A reporter for the Washington Post authored an article with the salacious and misleading headline “2018 has been deadlier for schoolchildren than service members.”
“U.S. Gun Owners Support Stronger Gun Laws” that is Fake News Folks
The only thing 100% of American’s would agree on is what we really need is bogus polling and liar control.
CDC Quiet on Data Showing Americans Regularly Use Guns for Self-Defense
Given how often questions about defensive gun usage come up, around 116,000 per year to millions, one may wonder why this data was never acknowledged.
Environics Poll Regarding A Ban Of Semi-Automatic Firearms Is Bunk
Environics took 131 of 1,510 total respondents, and claimed those 131 people represent the views of 2.1 MILLION licensed Canadian gun owners…
More Bogus “Gun Injury Studies” by Just Plain Stupid “Researchers”
The researchers obviously have not attended a NRA Annual Meeting and basic logic & math calls their findings into serious question.
NJ Democrats Want to Fund Biased Gun Research with your Tax Dollars
Since New Jersey Democrats are essentially running out of ideas for new gun laws that turn law-abiding citizens into incarcerated criminals, they have introduced a new scheme to undermine the 2A..
Scientific American Embraces Junk Science
Scientific American is following the old CDC model of picking a desired outcome and selectively promoting views and data which support the objective…
Quinnipiac’s Propaganda Polls – 95% Support Background Checks? Yeah Right…
Anyone who follows firearm issues knows the “background check” results are totally bogus, and that inaccuracy should cast serious doubt on the “health plan” results as well.
Climate Change Chaos, Additional Facts
Solar activity in the past has warmed the Earth, and we now must take into consideration the role of the sun in global warming today.
Snopes Labels Mauser and Kates’ Classic Work “Urban Myths”
This experience busted the myth for me that Snopes.com is an objective myth buster. Myths are apparently easier to bust than political controversies.
Liars in Lab Coats – How Our Tax Dollars Should NOT Be Spent
We all know that the gun control community has co-opted the phrase ‘common sense.’ What is ‘common sense’ to them, is foolishness to us.
Bloomberg’s “Scientists” Hoping to “Disprove” Your Fundamental Rights
A group of researchers at the Michael Bloomberg funded Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy & Research did what they are paid to do: deliver “evidence” to support banning guns.
NY Attorney General Publishes Phony “Trafficking” Study With Flawed, Incomplete Data
New York’s antigun politicians, however, have an established history of using governmental personnel and resources for purely political purposes.
The Gun Survey That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Really? Three per cent of American gun owners own half the guns? That seems wildly off the mark.
Debunking Suicide “Research” by Hack Public Health Activists
This hack job should be expected, as The Trace is a news organization funded by the gun banners at Everytown for Gun Safety & the Joyce Foundation…
Another Gun Research Peer Review FAIL at JAMA
The editors at one of America’s leading medical journals have been clear for years on what they want readers to think about guns—private ownership of firearms should be banned..
American Medical Association, Ethics & Gun Control (Part I)
I can testify that the AMA has been moving steadily to the left in a variety of issues, from the perversion of medical ethics to gun control…
Statistical Malpractice: The Standard in Anti-Gun ‘Research’ – Part 2
The Violence Policy Center has been lauding a 2002 study as “the most comprehensive study ever conducted on impact of gun availability.” But let examine the real facts….
Statistical Malpractice: The Standard in Anti-Gun “Research” – Part 1
There is a worrying trend in academic medicine which equates statistics with science, and sophistication in quantitative procedure with research excellence.
Does Firearm Legislation Affect Firearm-Related Injuries? Reviewing a Review
We take some satisfaction in revealing when “research” turns out to be made of recycled memes, illogical methods and forgone conclusions.
Guns Are Not Pathogens, The Truth Is Out
What is remarkable is the USA has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. Yet the United States is among the safest places to live in the world…
Critiquing the “Research” Criticizing Guns
Anti gun researchers at The New England Journal of Medicine don’t like “research parasites” using their data to try to disprove what the original investigators claim to have proved..!?!
Smart Guns, Dumb Survey
What’s not being reported by main stream media is that the “study” published in the American Journal of Public Health is NOT actually a study..?
How Congress Stopped the CDC Gun Grabbers & Saved Science
President Obama, gun prohibitionists in Congress, and their many friends in major media outlets have done a formidable job of spinning the story of how the CDC lost its funding for gun research…
Tell Your Representative: No Gun Control in the Omnibus Bill
Contact your Representative. Tell him or her to vote against any version of the “omnibus” which would allow fraudulent anti-gun “junk science” studies by Obama’s government agencies…