feh...
Posted on 04/26/2015 10:01:31 AM PDT by rellimpank
After the Sandy Hook tragedy, reporters often called me to ask for information on firearms. They wanted to know whether strong gun laws reduced homicide rates (I said they did); and, conversely, whether permissive gun laws lowered crime rates overall (I said they did not).
I discovered that in their news articles journalists would write that I said one thing while some other firearms researcher said the opposite. This “he said, she said” reporting annoyed me, because I knew that the scientific evidence was on my side. After the Sandy Hook tragedy, reporters often called me to ask for information on firearms. They wanted to know whether strong gun laws reduced homicide rates (I said they did); and, conversely, whether permissive gun laws lowered crime rates overall (I said they did not).
I discovered that in their news articles journalists would write that I said one thing while some other firearms researcher said the opposite. This “he said, she said” reporting annoyed me, because I knew that the scientific evidence was on my side.
(Excerpt) Read more at host.madison.com ...
“The science is settled” = “We wish to shut down the debate”
feh...
How does he explain Chicago, a short drive down the road from him?
ALL heavy MURDER CENTERS in the United States ALL have severe firearm restrictions.. i.e big cities
most of those that don’t have as much murder have “concealed carry”............
a fact extremely HARD to IGNORE.. but some do..
The lives SAVED by firearms YOU’LL NEVER HEAR...
Then you lied, you ignorant piece of shit.
Why would you lie, yo fool?
I don't do the ebonics crap.
Reminds me of Senator Schumer during the 1990’s saying all the time about the second amendment not being an individual right “ It’s settled Law, It’s settled law”
I wemt to the site to read the piece and all the lines of text were blanked out as if it had been “redacted” to the max before a FOIA request was honored.
Reporters often want to talk to morons. It's in their nature.
“The science on guns is settled”
Pompous Ass and an illiterate, childishly pedantic and intellectual plagiarist....
Yet another gun control *sshole deliberately gets it wrong.
Liar or fool, or both.
Seems to me the science IS settled, though in the other direction. If David Hemenway wants to challenge these statistics, I'm willing to listen.
Video: Number One With a Bullet.
the only thing that is settled is the ignorance of far left liberals- There’s simply no debating that issue- it’s settled- they are ignorant- end of story-
So how can Hemenway make this claim of “consensus” when he completely ignores other recent surveys?
“My first step was to put together a list of relevant scientists.”
Here’s his first mistake. Just WTF is a “relevant scientist?” This guy is the typical Harvard Prick who thinks he’s smarter than everyone in the room!
Obviously, a "regional" answer: Here in Texas, that which remains when the male bovine pen is emptied of its occupants -- is described by a single eight-letter word.
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