This is a good starting place for a report but one of the problems is that this is a literature review and Congress has banned study of gun issues by governmental organizations in the past. That means that folks like the CDC and NIH couldn't really fund/conduct direct studies so the literature that is available is a bit scattershot (pun intended).
Overall, it seems to mirror my own conflicted feelings on gun issues. I like guns but realize that there is definitely a problem in our country. A great deal of it seems to be cultural. We have falling crime rates but more fear and a changing gun ownership toward more handguns and high capacity weapons. I don't really know what the answer to that kind of problem is. What I'd love to see is some new research that is actually designed to get at some of these questions in a rigorous fashion. This, at least, seems to be a start. Overall, however, I can't help but shake the feeling that the fundamental problem is a culture of fear and the people that prey on it. I feel like groups from the NRA to people backing the Patriot Act are pushing a culture where people are afraid and oppositional and being pressured to give up rational thought in service of doing "something" to protect themselves, whether it being gun purchases or gutting the 4th Amendment. Not sure how we tackle those problems. Judah On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:50 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes it does. > > I have long argued that hand guns are very difficult to use successfully in > self defense. But #7 in this list clearly refutes that. > > I'm a learner, not an ideologist, so I will rethink my position on this > with the idea that guns can be and are used quite successfully in self > defense. > > I ask, then, if others on this list who generally come down on the side of > pro-guns, what they think of these points: > - the US has an indisputable gun violence problem > - hand guns are the problem (A point i've made time and again) > - carrying guns for self defense is an arms race > > Anyone else willing to rethink their position? > > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:36 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > I have to do the same when I get home. There's a link to the results but > > the language of the results indicate that it's a compilation analysis of > > other surveys and research. > > > > The thing I found interesting is that it shoots holes in some of the > > boilerplate talking points from both sides of the debate. > > > > And yes, the pun was completely intended. > > > > Until Later! > > C. Hatton Humphrey > > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com > > > > Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do > some > > smelting to find it. > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > think I'll try and dig up the full article. I am very interesting in > the > > > findings. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364917 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
