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| 2004-06-24 |
| EFL One such article is "The Life Cycle of Crime Guns: A Description Based on Guns Recovered From Young People in California," in the June 2004 issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The authors grasp for relevance by comparing crime guns to bioterrorist weapons like anthrax. For years medical researchers have tried to push the notion that guns are germs to be eradicated. This model is cute for propaganda purposes — kill the germs, ban the guns: eliminate health risks. But reputable scientists always dismissed this view as a political tactic with no scientific basis. The message of this article was its title, apparently intended to associate the words "crime guns" with "young people" in the minds of readers. Another slam at kids and guns appeared in the April 2004 issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. "Gun Threats Against and Self-Defense Gun Use by California Adolescents" studied gun use among a group of Californians aged 12 to 17. Only 4 percent of them reported ever having been threatened with a gun. The earthshaking scientific contribution this article makes is that these 4 percent were boys who tended to threaten others and whose parents didn’t know where they were after school. Did we need a yearlong Harvard study to tell us that? And what about the 96 percent who never had been threatened with a gun? Can we learn anything from good kids who stay out of trouble? The authors apparently think not. The title of a February 2004 article from the same journal amazingly asks if gun possession and teenage conduct disorder (P.C.-speak for juvenile delinquency) are a "highly combustible combination." It’s a safe bet that law-enforcement agencies haven’t rushed to put this article on their required reading lists. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #1 Personally, I think that any debate about gun control should include the statistic that bladed weapons *kill* FOUR TIMES as many people in the US as do guns. So then, what exactly is the opposition to guns? Is it they make a loud noise; or is it that they are effective equalizers? And that is the gist of the argument: are they opposed to guns because they want to deny the common man the ability to resist the powerful and the violent? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-06-24 1:07:53 PM |