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Harvard sounds like a reputable source. But I didn’t even need to click it to know that would be a David Hemenway link. That guy is an absolute propagandist. A
by SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
Harvard sounds like a reputable source. But I didn’t even need to click it to know that would be a David Hemenway link.
That guy is an absolute propagandist. A complete fraud given a platform by Michael Bloomberg who single handedly funds the majority of gun control efforts in the USA.
If you do any research on him at all, you’ll find he was center of the Clinton Admin and 1994 Congress efforts to push gun control, including weaponizing the CDC, funding compete junk studies where data was never released and extremely unethical methodology like a phone survey of 250 people who filed police reports that mentioned someone was shot in a home to conclude that for all people and all reasons “you are x% more likely to die if you own a gun in your home” (eneter Hemenway, and data never released), and all the other lies they used to push the Clinton AWB, which they were severely punished for in the 1996 elections.
Hemenway is a liar and a hack. I would highly suggest finding sources that stay far away from him.
- arcticbull 3y agoWithout addressing anything you wrote, here's three other sources that yields the same results, including one from the ATF. Regardless of your opinions regarding the author there is plenty of data that backs up this assertion. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385318/ [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/stolen-gunsare-fueling-violent-crime-in-the-us/2023/02/04/beb60022-a48e-11ed-8b47-9863fda8e494_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/stolen-gunsare-fueli... [2] https://www.atf.gov/firearms/national-firearms-commerce-and-trafficking-assessment-nfcta-crime-guns-volume-two https://www.atf.gov/firearms/national-firearms-commerce-and-...
- yonaguska 3y agoIf you're trying to convince someone that is pro 2a of anything, the ATF is hardly a source of authority. They're pretty high up there in the list of reviled 3 letter agencies.
- arcticbull 3y agoheh, it's sort of a cult at this point. It's more for the audience.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoIf you are OK with no addressing content; For your reference… NIH, ATF, and Washington Post are all anti-gun organizations. For your ATF link, it’s all University criminology depts sourcing data, typically universities are anti-gun; and the sociology depts especially so. It is very difficult to get unbiased results on guns. And ultra easy to see authority and confirmation biases. If you are mindful of that fact, the landscape and topic takes on a new dimension.
- lhopki01 3y agoWhy is the link that direction? Could it be that universities, etc are anti-gun because the data shows they are harmful? Overall I find it odd that this standard is applied this way. No one accuses Universities of being anti cancer when they publish a study on how cancer harms the body. Or for example dismissing any study on the effectiveness of a vaccine because the group doing the study are pro vaccines.
- arcticbull 3y agoYes thanks to the power of imagination guns actually shoot candies and rainbows, thanks for setting me straight. The number of stolen guns shouldn’t be controversial lol