Posted on 12/26/2019 10:04:02 PM PST by MacNaughton
A new paper by three top researchers has revealed public health researchers are “are much more supportive of gun control than are either criminologists or economists.”
The report, authored by John R. Lott, Arther Z. Berg. MD, and Gary A. Mauser, is headlined “Expert Views on Gun Laws.” Lott is founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, Berg is at the Harvard University Department of Psychiatry and Mauser is with the Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business.
The eight-page report appears in the Winter edition of Regulation, the Cato Institute’s review of Business and Government. The trio obtained responses from 120 experts and compared “the views of public health researchers with those of criminologists and economists on a wide range of gun control policies.”
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“The top four policies for economists were the same, but in different order: encourage the elimination of gun-free zones (7.9), relax federal regulations that pressure companies to create gun-free zones (7.8),allow K–12 teachers to carry concealed handguns (7.7),and allow military personnel to carry on military bases (7.7).” However, when it comes to public health researchers, they’re far more in favor of stricter gun control policies.
“Their top policy choice,” the report revealed, “was barring gun sales to people deemed dangerous by a mental health provider, which was the fifth most valued policy by criminologists (4.88). Public health researchers’ other top policies weren’t viewed positively by criminologists.
Of course they do.
Armed Patriots, however, disagree.
Strongly.
I guess this is a sign they are all democrats.
That is interesting, Mistakes made by doctors and hospital personnel kill a lot more people in this country every year than guns do.
They see the result of the gun violence in person, they don’t see the other side. Their view is skewed and while being valid, should be taken with a grain of salt.
If humans weren’t so flawed their wouldn’t be a need for guns.
However if you remove the guns you will still have the flawed humans who will continue to find a way to conduct mayhem.
And what does that same group of ‘experts’ say about abortion?
And what does that same group of ‘experts’ say about medical errors being the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer?
About a year ago, I needed a new doctor. During my first visit, the doctor asked if I owned and guns. I told him owning any form of personal property has nothing to do with my health, I no longer needed his services, so I’ll find a physician who understands that treating a patient’s health takes precedence over liberal political agendas.
“About a year ago, I needed a new doctor. During my first visit, the doctor asked if I owned and guns. I told him owning any form of personal property has nothing to do with my health, I no longer needed his services, so I’ll find a physician who understands that treating a patient’s health takes precedence over liberal political agendas.”
Sorry, but wrong answer. The ideal answers, from best to worst are as follows:
1. No, never owned a gun
2. Yes, but I’m very careful to keep it locked up
3. None of your *&%*&^ business
Your answer, of course, was basically #3 - those are the people their trying to find.
They often don’t admit any difference between criminal homicide and justifiable homicide, so they lump the two together into one number and say the number is too big. But, doing that is literally amoral, equating a murderer’s action with a defensive response that kills the murderer.
Exactly
What i are “public health researchers”?
This isn’t about doctors doing research. The title is deceptive. I imagine it’s people with sociology degrees
You are most likely right - the bane of academia, sociologists.
Are they? I was just trying to think of who deals with public health, but not in a medical way
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