Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

(6,641 posts) Tue Feb 15, 2022, 01:13 PM Feb 2022

States with weaker gun laws have higher rates of firearm related homicides and suicides, study finds

(CNN)A new study published Thursday by a leading non-profit organization that focuses on gun violence prevention found that there is a direct correlation in states with weaker gun laws and higher rates of gun deaths, including homicides, suicides and accidental killings.

The study by Everytown for Gun Safety determined that California had the strongest gun laws in the country. Hawaii topped the list with the lowest rate of gun deaths in the country while Mississippi led the country with both the weakest gun laws and highest rate of gun deaths.

"What this project does, is show what we've been saying for years: Gun laws save lives," said Nick Suplina, senior vice president of law and policy at Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund. "We think this is going to be a really important tool for lawmakers, reporters and advocates that have been looking for the kind of visual tool that can make that case clearly."

To compile its list, the group used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at each state's rate of gun deaths in 2020 and compared those rates with 50 policies that they say are scientifically proven to be effective in preventing gun violence, Suplina said.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/us/everytown-weak-gun-laws-high-gun-deaths-study/index.html

States with few, or no meaningful, gun violence regulations will continue to be leaders in gun deaths. Rampant gun violence in this country is mainly attributable to the right-wing propensity for a skewed interpretation of the Second Amendment, and a "mine is bigger" mentality. Stand your ground laws are nothing more than get out of jail free cards for murder, and legalized vigilantism.

Support organizations who are exposing the absurdity of NRA-sponsored politicians who have turned our streets into shooting galleries and are endangering society as a whole.

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States with weaker gun laws have higher rates of firearm related homicides and suicides, study finds (Original Post) billh58 Feb 2022 OP

To quote my Gen Z children... "duh" Moostache Feb 2022 #1

isn't this the sort of research that the gun lobby tried to stop? DBoon Feb 2022 #2

Why the CDC Hasn't Launched a Comprehensive Gun Study in 15 Years billh58 Feb 2022 #3

Moostache

(10,166 posts)

1. To quote my Gen Z children... "duh"

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Tue Feb 15, 2022, 01:19 PM

Feb 2022

The sophistry needed to believe that the solution to gun violence is MORE guns has always been utter bullshit...just like the 2nd ammendment freaks who believe their rifles and shotguns will allow them to repeat the Revolutionary War exploits of 'defense against tyranny'.

More guns in schools simply increases the odds of a shooting.
More guns in stores? Same thing...
More guns in society? Yep, math still checks out - more of "A" (guns), which causes "B" (shootings) leads to more dead people...

Then I will of course hear "good guy with a gun" fallacy and "but there will be fewer dead good guys and more dead bad guys" as if ANY dead guys is inevitable and OK...

Its all bullshit already, oppressive, nonsensical bullshit, and so the money and blood flow and the profits stack up higher than the dead bodies and society grows more numb to the issue as if its just natural for people to die from impact of high velocity slugs of bullets fired at them or near them or in their vicinity.

Spare me.
We don't have gun laws because we have a stupity problem that no one wishes to address - becasue to do so impacts someone's profits and we can't have THAT precedent getting out (SARCASM)

DBoon

(23,083 posts)

2. isn't this the sort of research that the gun lobby tried to stop?

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Tue Feb 15, 2022, 01:26 PM

Feb 2022

Wasn't there a prohibition against any organization using Federal funds from researching the public health consequences of widespread firearm use?

billh58

(6,641 posts)

3. Why the CDC Hasn't Launched a Comprehensive Gun Study in 15 Years

Reply to DBoon (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 15, 2022, 01:58 PM

Feb 2022

Last edited Tue Feb 15, 2022, 02:46 PM - Edit history (1)

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies a variety of public health threats every year, from infectious diseases to automobile safety. But for 15 years, the CDC has avoided comprehensive research on one of the top causes of death in the U.S.: firearms.

While the CDC keeps surveillance data on gun injuries and deaths, it has not funded a study aimed at reducing harm from guns since 2001. The CDC estimates that firearms are one of the top five causes of death in the U.S. for people under the age of 65, so advocates of gun safety say the lack of comprehensive research is particularly glaring.

The dearth of research funding goes back to 1997, when an amendment was added to an operations bill that passed in Congress with the language that the CDC will be barred from any research that will “advocate or promote gun control,” CDC spokeswoman Courtney Lenard told ABC News.

Called the Dickey Amendment after Rep. Jay Dickey, a Republican from Arkansas who served from 1993 to 2001, the amendment is often called a ban, but it did allow for research on injuries or deaths from firearms. However, Lenard pointed out that after the amendment, Congress cut funding for the CDC by the exact amount that had been spent on gun research in the year before. While that $2.6 million in funding was eventually restored, it was earmarked for traumatic brain injury research, according to a 2013 article in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-launched-comprehensive-gun-study-15-years/story?id=39873289

And, an update:

After a 20-year drought, US lawmakers fund gun violence research

Gun violence research just got $25 million in federal funds, after a 20-year drought in funding for that purpose. The spending bill passed by US lawmakers today allocates half of the money to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and half to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Both agencies will use the money to fund studies on gun violence, which kills tens of thousands of people each year in the United States.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21028779/gun-violence-research-funding-20-year-freeze-congress-bill-cdc-nih-dickey

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