A story published Tuesday indicates that the Trace may have found a new data source – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.
The Trace breaks up with the Gun Violence Archive, possibly

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A story published Tuesday indicates that the Trace may have found a new data source – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.
If you feel that the mere mention of guns in a podcast about guns by an outlet that purports to report on guns requires a special warning, maybe you are not the neutral “journalist” you think you are.
Anti-gun extremists, like those at The Trace, just cannot seem to comprehend the idea of firearms being used as a crime deterrent unless someone gets shot.
The Trace, a Michael Bloomberg-funded propaganda mill that masquerades as a “media” outlet, has been churning out lies about the Second Amendment and gun laws for nearly a decade.
The Trace, the propaganda arm of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s antigun empire, recently published their picks for “The Most Memorable Gun Violence Journalism of 2023.”
The article acknowledges “Only a small fraction of guns sold in this country are ever used in a homicide or suicide.”
What they’re really trying to make us believe is that owning a gun is a big front-end part of the problem.
I’m guessing the woke-kids working at anti-gun site, The Trace, don’t get out much. They don’t seem to have a lot of life experience.
What a load of tired and long disproven talking points.
The brief includes accounts of people whose lives have been turned upside down because of heavy-handed and narrow-minded enforcement of the state’s gun laws.
Pair budding criminals up with experienced ones. And add money into the equation. What could go wrong?
I find it inconceivable that any journalism organization – especially CJR – would convene a panel discussion that mixes media & activists of any kind, & then allow the activists to dictate coverage.
Questions about what kind of causes and candidates a killer identified with are unquestionably relevant…
This is really just another opportunity for the antis to further blame guns for social ills …
Chances are her father having been an underworld killer with multiple hits under his belt had an influence.
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
The weapons that were in common use at that time were precisely the arms the military had.
We’re not sure that anyone at The Trace or The Daily Beast actually read the studies cited in the article. A funny thing happens when you read the study, you get your facts right…
[T]he manufactured individual vs. collective “controversy” actually did not arise until the gun ban lobby invented their argument…
Murder inequality.. What an interesting turn of a phrase. Use of the word “inequality” is usually reserved for matters in which some group is not getting their “fair share”…
Forget the fact the writer left out the horrendous murder scorecard in “The Windy City of Murder,” more glaring to me was the source of the column…
For a fake-news-spewing sock puppet like The Trace to represent itself as a watchdog against such misinformation is laughable.
Close watchers of the gun control debate also cannot help but notice how multiple media outlets tend to push similar gun control storylines at the same, or nearly the same, time.
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…
A rabidly anti-gun website is helpfully coaching us on how we can make guns safer for everyone. If you believe that, your probably gonna voter for Hillary too…
Ordinarily, we do not respond to quasi-journalistic electronic emanations from the wholly owned propaganda megaphone of the Michael Bloomberg called the Trace…
As public opinion & firearm policy have steadily tended toward affirming the Second Amendment, gun prohibitionists have reacted by becoming increasingly frantic…
A new study by the Congressional Research Service, by far the most thorough and comprehensive of its type to date, confirms that mass shootings continue to be rare in the United States.
Support for allowing military personnel to carry firearms for self-protection following the terrorist attack upon military personnel in Chattanooga last week has been strongly declared by several…..
Bloomberg’s “The Trace” reported last week “breaking news” that anti-gun researcher David Hemenway has “debunked” the myth of self defensive gun uses in America.