A new study in JAMA Pediatrics asserts that states with "permissive" gun control laws experienced higher pediatric firearm mortality rates following the 2010 Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. Chicago. The study analyzed data from 49 states spanning 1999 to 2023....
A new survey titled “Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey” and published in March 7th issue of the journal JAMA Network Open claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S. adults reported having been present at the scene of a mass shooting...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review. . ‘Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and adolescents,” U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy saidlast week, calling the situation a “public health crisis.” It has been a favorite talking point of the...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times. According to the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, the threat of an armed insurrection is so pressing that we must quickly enact wide-ranging gun control measures. Its new report...
lawmakers in Washington have set aside roughly $75 million since 2019 for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research gun violence.Ramsey Touchberry, "Congress pours $75M into gun research such as whether community...
Here are the numbers for those under 20, but there are some issues with the accuracy of these numbers. UPDATE: The New England Journal of Medicine has a letter making the claim that children are more likely to die from guns than any other cause. The piece contains...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-3PiY_CqoY Something to remember when dealing with public health people when they talk about other issues that they consider themselves experts on, such as gun control.
The CDC has had serious errors previously in their data dealing with gun control issues that the CPRC was able to get corrected only after strenuous efforts. If the CDC withholds data that goes against their initial claims, why should we trust them on other issues...
In a paper titled, “Changes in firearm mortality following the implementation of state laws regulating firearm access and use,” RAND Corporation staffers have published a paper examining child access prevention (CAP), right-to-carry (RTC), and stand your ground (SYG)...
In order to buy protection from gun control groups, Wells Fargo has promised to give more than $10 million to support their research agenda. Trisha Schultz, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman, said in a statement that the bank planned to invest more than $10 million over three...
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Townhall.com discusses the House Appropriations Committee Allotting $50 million for public health research on guns. Lott's piece begins this way: One of the most common attacks on the National Rifle Association is that it supposedly...
Dr. John Lott appeared yesterday before the House Appropriations Committee to testify about the need for the CDC to fund research on gun ownership. He has a new piece at Fox News that starts this way: Democrats in the U.S. House are likely to approve spending $50...