Comments on: Carry a gun = you get shot more often

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concealed carry class — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:11:07 +0000

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By: Fletcher Brits

Fletcher Brits — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:52:52 +0000

Babaganoosh here and this was such a treat, boost out another one asap

By: Labash

Labash — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:05:27 +0000

From what I can gather after reading the authors’ press commentary and the abstract, this study probably failed to control for the (apparently accurately) perceived environmental risk factor that motivated the carrying of firearms in the first place. An obvious point that would have had to be addressed in any serious press communication. Otherwise, it seems rather like arguing that life-preservers cause drowning, because vehicles with life-preservers cause drowning. Those vehicles being boats, naturally.

By: Omar

Omar — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:37:35 +0000

George, can you back up even one of your assertions with a valid reference, including possibly reading the actual paper rather than drawing all of your conclusions from the abstract?

By: george

george — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:36:32 +0000

Something new to the internet is a url called “Google.” You can search information about just about anything. You can search ‘Charles C. Branas, PhD, Joyce Foundation’; (a totally anti-gun of any type foundation that spends millions each year funding anti-gun articles, law review, medical papers and anti-gun groups and causes that our own Pres. BHO was on the board of directors of for 8 years when they gave over $10 million to anti-gun causes,) and you will find out that, SURPRISE!!!, that the Dr. has had papers funded by the Joyce Foundation in the past, (Big Cities and Small Towns Bear Similar Risks of Gun Death) and guess what, they are all anti-gun.

Follow this link to see what is wrong with the study: http://volokh.com/2009/10/05/guns-did-not-protect-those-who-possessed-them-from-being-shot-in-an-assault/

Read the abstract, (it cost $20 to get a copy of the report,) and you will see that they did not control for people who were in legal possession of a gun and those who owned and used a gun for illegal purposes so that if a drug dealer shot someone who was selling in their turf and that person shot back and wounded the original person that counts as two people who had guns and were shot anyway. What if someone shot someone who was breaking into their house and the criminal had a gun. That still gives you one person who had a gun and was still shot.

Note that the report has no margin of error. How is that possible? I am sure that all of those people who they called up were honest. Even the gang members.

Typical of the anti-gun foundations and the press who does not do any work to discover if one of these fake foundation papers is true or not or has some major problems. That is unless the paper is done by any pro-civil rights group or person.

By: becca

becca — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:54:40 +0000

Today’s local news:
“Remember that lancaster woman who was arrested for bringing her gun to her kids soccer game? Well, today her funeral proceedings were started. She was shot by her husband, who then shot himself”.
Anecdotes != data. But sad.

By: Fran Barlow

Fran Barlow — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:16:44 +0000

And just to underline your point Greg, this just in …

A soccer mum who gained notoriety for openly carrying a loaded pistol to youth sports events has been fatally shot by her husband as she video-chatted with a friend, authorities say.

Scott Hain used his own gun to fire several shots into his 30-year-old wife, Meleanie, while her video chat was active and perhaps as she washed dishes in their kitchen, police said. Scott Hain, 33, later killed himself in an upstairs bedroom.

Meleanie Hain’s loaded pistol – with a bullet ready in the chamber – was in a backpack hanging from the front door.

Meleanie Hain became a voice of the gun-rights movement last year when she fought for the right to carry a holstered pistol at her young daughter’s soccer games. Other parents complained, prompting a sheriff to revoke her concealed-weapons permit, a decision a judge later overturned.

“I’m just a soccer mom who has always openly carried (a firearm), and I’ve never had a problem before,” Hain said last autumn. “I don’t understand why this is happening to me.”

The Hains later sued the sheriff who had revoked her open-weapons permit. The $US1 million ($A1.1 million) suit, which claims they suffered emotional distress and lost customers for her home baby-sitting service, remains pending against Lebanon County Sheriff Michael DeLeo.

Gun advocate shot by husband

Sigh … this is a dreadful tragedy for the community and of course the kids and one hopes they will recover from this but it’s just so damned foreseeable.