A newly-released on children and guns is making lots of Monday headlines, but there are several points about the study, or at least the reporting, that should raise a few questions and plenty of eyebrows. The study reports that “More than half (53 percent) of deaths due to guns among children were homicides,” according to […]
Gun Prohibition Lobby Holds Annual Fund-Raiser in Seattle
The Pacific Northwest’s most high profile and well-funded gun prohibition lobbying organization, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, will be holding its annual fund-raising luncheon in Seattle today at the Westin Hotel. It could be a gathering of the Who’s Who of anti-gun politics, gloating about the passage of two gun control initiatives since 2014, and […]
Does CDC Data Support Another Backhand Slap at Firearms?
In Tuesday’s U.S. News and World Report, an opinion piece promoting more gun laws and fewer firearms alleges that “the daily toll of gun violence is no less horrific, taking the lives of approximately 92 people every single day, most of them slain with handguns.” It’s a dramatic assertion, based on data from the Centers for […]
‘Smart’ Guns Damaged by Dumb Rhetoric?
Right out of the gate in his opinion piece about so-called “smart guns” in the New York Daily News’ Sunday edition, Washington Ceasefire’s Ralph Fascitelli perpetuates the false impression that “gun violence” somehow accounts for the “almost 34,000 Americans (that) die from firearms annually.” Fascitelli knows that roughly two-thirds of annual firearms-related deaths are suicides, […]
Research Hints that Background Check Laws May Hamper Suicide Prevention
New research published this week in an issue of the JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that gun control laws requiring background checks for even temporary transfers of firearms may hamper suicide prevention efforts, according to Fox News. It’s an assertion that got immediate attention from Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment […]