The Phony ‘Public-Health Crisis’ of Gun Violence

nationalreview.com ^ | 1/16/2017 | Vik Khanna

[rktman]

Two major medical journals have decided to renew the academic medical establishment’s assault on gun owners.

The first shot across the bow appeared in the November 8 Journal of the American Medical Association, where esteemed Stanford University health economist Victor Fuchs published a paper on the problem of life expectancy in the black community. Near the end of his lamentation, Fuchs asserts that increasing life expectancy in the black community “depends more on public health measures such as gun control than on medical care.” The second shot came with the release of the January issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, which has four papers and an editorial devoted to firearms violence, with a heavy emphasis on suicide prevention, which would benefit whites much more than it would the black community.

It should go without saying that Dr. Fuchs and his fellow public-health avengers have made critical analytical errors that belie their actual goal: a creeping vine of restrictions on access to firearms that, in their most lurid dreams, would eventually make gun ownership illegal. Unfortunately for them, the inconvenient truth is that the right to bear arms is in the Bill of Rights. There is no cross-cultural argument that can trump this right; it exists in the Constitution of no other modern, industrialized democracy, and no other modern, industrialized democracy resembles ours. Democratic and demographic differences matter.

[rktman]

How cute. Proving yet again that attaining a PhD/Md does not prove comportment of intelligence. Not everybody graduates at the top of the class.

[JudgemAll]

I see that Hillary and the KKK still continue to target minority disarmament without shame nor oppositions from idiots voting black communists

[Dilbert San Diego]

Dr. Fuchs needs to be very careful about potential misspellings and mispronunciation of his name..........

My dad knew somebody whose family name was Lifshitz. They changed their name to Lorring precisely to avoid the issues which Dr.Fuchs faces.

[Lurkinanloomin]

“depends more on public health measures such as gun control than on medical care.”
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No, it depends on correcting the thug life culture glorified by rap music and Hollywood and encouraging cohesive families raising their children to have good content in their character.

[buffaloguy]

Well, while you’re at it, why don’t you declare “Trigger Words” a public health crisis so you too can limit the First amendment. Make using trigger words a felony and as we all know trigger words are defined by the listener,

[Lion Den Dan]

There was a time in some states where this was in effect, gun control for minorities that is. It did no good as those darned coloreds kept getting guns and razors and killing each other. It was not constitutional, any way. Since the majority of colored killing is done by coloreds, it probably won’t do any good to try prohibiting arms to non coloreds. Some things may just be genetic.

[Seaplaner]

Of the 32,279 firearms deaths in the US in 2014, 586, or just 1.8 percent, were unintentional discharges. You are nearly six times more likely to die by accidental drowning and 54 times more likely to die in an accidental fall than you are to be accidentally killed by a gun. While accidental firearm deaths are tragic, they are exceedingly rare, and are best reduced through education about responsible gun ownership and use. The vast majority of gun deaths — more than 98 percent of them — are intentional, whether they be suicide or homicide.

From the nicely written piece by Vik Khanna

[umgud]

I am sick and tired of gun control being foisted on me because of high black crime rates.

[marktwain]

The article uses the CDC number for fatal firearms accidents in 2014. That number is incorrect. It is listed at 586. It is probably 486. The CDC shows they had coding errors in 2014. John Lott shows that they overstated fatal accidents in Tennessee by 100, showing 105 instead of 5.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2016/10/researcher-predicts-cdc-wrong-on-gun.html

[rktman]

You microaggressor you.

[ManHunter]

At what point do we address the public health crisis of liberalism/progressivism/globalism? Now THERE’s a topic for a doctoral dissertation if I’ve ever heard one!

[Noumenon]

I don’t give two Fuchs for what these agenda-driven frauds have to say.

[dburt2]

PHD is an acronym for PILED HIGH and DEEP.

[buffaloguy]

Stuff it, Snowflake.

Just practicing as I am thinking of going back to college.