MaverickNH
NES Member
Public health leaders ‘afraid to say guns’
The usual suspects, with Josh Sugarman from VPC and David Hemenway from Harvard, railing on about how gun deaths exceeded car death in 10 states in 2009, and how there is a lot of public funding to study car safety but little for gun safety. David Kopel was given a token 5% of the word count to provide "balance" to the article. The statistics look pretty damning:
State Gun Car
Alaska 104 84
Arizona 856 809
Colorado 583 565
Indiana 735 715
Michigan 1095 977
Nevada 406 255
Oregon 417 394
Utah 260 256
Virginia 836 827
Wash 623 580
But Truth About Guns debunked this by showing the relative rates when you take out suicides - still less than a 1-to-50 rate of Gun vs Car deaths, and less than 1-to-100 rate of Gun vs Car injury.
Just a pack of lies that, unfortunately, the media picks up and amplifies.
The usual suspects, with Josh Sugarman from VPC and David Hemenway from Harvard, railing on about how gun deaths exceeded car death in 10 states in 2009, and how there is a lot of public funding to study car safety but little for gun safety. David Kopel was given a token 5% of the word count to provide "balance" to the article. The statistics look pretty damning:
State Gun Car
Alaska 104 84
Arizona 856 809
Colorado 583 565
Indiana 735 715
Michigan 1095 977
Nevada 406 255
Oregon 417 394
Utah 260 256
Virginia 836 827
Wash 623 580
But Truth About Guns debunked this by showing the relative rates when you take out suicides - still less than a 1-to-50 rate of Gun vs Car deaths, and less than 1-to-100 rate of Gun vs Car injury.
Just a pack of lies that, unfortunately, the media picks up and amplifies.