Facts are not a Gun Loon's friend

Yeah, Yeah.  I see the level of intelligence you all show; repeating the same cliched phrases without knowing what they mean ("palladium of liberty" only means something which protects liberty, moron. It is a person's opinion and has been used about the militia and juries--your point?).

I note how the "pro-gun" disinformation fills the internet making it hard to find accurate information.

The best part is that policy has been crippled because money for public health studies can't fund anything which "might lead to gun control". 

Well, the public who do those surveys have something to say about that:

"My colleagues and I were doing a study on playground injuries, because they were doing some remodeling projects here, and we wanted to see if that would change the playground injury rate," Sauaia said.

"When we started coding the trauma data, which includes all types of childhood injuries that turn up at these trauma centers, and we noticed the morbid pattern of gun violence-related injuries for children ... that shifted the focus of the study to document violence related to injuries involving gunshots."

The data, she said, showed a surprising number of children were being injured, many of them seriously, by guns.

No wonder you lot don't like facts.

It''s bad enough having us tell you that you are more of a danger to yourselves without having the public health data out there to back us up.

Seriously, the problem with "pro-gun" arguments (bedsides not withstanding scrutiny) is that they aren't really helpful to your side.

Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue

The Denver Post reports

Gun violence must be treated as a public-health issue — such as alcohol, smoking and traffic — say people concerned about gun-related death rates from mass shootings and random shots nationwide.

"Guns are where tobacco was in the 1950s," said Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program, who practices emergency medicine at the University of California at Davis School of Medicine. "There's a little bit of science and a great deal of reluctance to do anything with the results." 

In the mid-1980s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began to look at gun-related deaths and injuries as a public-health problem and to finance scientific studies into the root causes of gun violence. 

But in 1996, the National Rifle Association successfully lobbied to block funding for such research. Little publicly funded research has been conducted since. As a result, there are few strategies for reducing firearm-related deaths, but the toll is moving upward, according to the latest data from the CDC. 

 In 2010, there were 31,672 deaths in the United States from firearm-related injuries, up from 31,347 in 2009.

Well, I guess that's another nail in the coffin of "more guns equals less crime." Gun related deaths have INCREASED between 2009 and 2010.

It's amazing how the cherry-picking, mendacious gun-rights advocates will get on something and keep pushing it regardless of it's true worth. Most of them don't even think, they just repeat anything that supports their mandate.

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