[quote author=3332292E213428400 link=1360377565/45#49 date=1361504253]I had posted this in that other post -
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1360345854And this was what I had posted.[/qoute]
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/the-blockade-on-science-on-gu...
BS Article. Mostly an opinion piece, but it attributes all the foot dragging on research to the NRA with no proof at all. Yes there is foot dragging, but by which side? Nothing here looks at that, they just blame the "Evil NRA."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-13/gun-lobby-helps-block-data-collectio...
Dead link... Try
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-13/gun-lobby-helps-block-data-collectio...Also a BS article. This is not about Data Collection, but a gun registry. How about a free speech registry? The fact that we do not trust the federal government with a national registry is sound thinking. Look what happened with this one?
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-08-nra-katrina_N.htmhttp://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/29/4668327/gun-lobby-blocks-violence-studies.htmlNot really sure I see the problem here. They do not want tax dollars funding biased research... I am OK with that. If you are not, find some money and fund it.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/01/executive-order-nra-should-fe...
Broken link and I do not feel like looking.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/31/nra-guns-tobacco-researc...
Broken link and I do not feel like looking.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/26/opinion/etzioni-gunsAnother article in support of gun registration and serial numbers for bullets. The problem is, in addition to adding a lot of costs, and removing legal reloading, we do not trust the record keepers.
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/12/31/health/nra-backed-obamacare-provision-r...
Broken link and I do not feel like looking.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/08/10/160412/commentary-nra-prevents-funding....
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https://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-nra-s-block-on-gun-research Quote:The N.R.A. denounced the research as “political opinion masquerading as medical science,” and in 1996, Congress took $2.6 million intended for gun research and redirected it to traumatic brain injury. It prohibited the use of C.D.C. money “to advocate or promote gun control.”
If all of these people so support the research, why not pay for it? Other than the fact that counter research has shown time and time again that it is false. Research paid for by private groups, I might add.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/07/nras-bill-to-ban-anti-gun-lobbying-woul...
Broken link again...
srinath wrote on 02/21/13 at 19:37:33:And Not just blocking information - its also active propogation of lies - like this, which I have read even here - I will look for it in a min -
National Rifle Association (NRA) Continues to Feed Its Readers Demonstrable Lies and Distortions
Thoroughly debunked years ago, the gun lobby’s favorite research – a 1995 study by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz that reported an astounding 2.5 million defense gun uses (DGU) each year in the United States. Yep, you read it right; 2.5 million DGUs PER YEAR!
The Kleck study claims that 2.5 million times per year, someone uses a gun to defend themselves. That’s more defensive gun uses than happened in WWII in Europe in 1944. The Kleck study is so flawed the only thing it measures is the wild imagination of gun owners.
I will look, but I have seen that 2.5 million number in a post here.
Cool.
Srinath.
I call BS. Citation needed, and better than the debunked ones above.