that's been my concern. Given the congressional bans no real research has been done recently. While I think that meta-analysis is a very powerful tool, this area still needs to be backed up with actual research.
As for firearm reduction, perhaps a similar approach to what was used with cigarette smoking would work. People still smoke but the number of smokers have dropped substantially in the last 20 years. Give firearm ownership a strong negative social stigma may reduce ownership. Couple it with something like making the identities of surviving shooters etc vanish, or make any reference to the person insulting and humiliating, we could see a substantial drop in firearm violence over a 20 year period. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:364925 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
