New anti gun "study" you'll love...

[WillBrink]

No bias or agenda here!

Per usual, focusing on the tool vs the outcome. Obviously, countries with more guns will have higher rates of gun related deaths. Wow, ground breaking stuff. Murder rates and violent crime rates are what matter and when one overlaps gun ownership rates with murder (because that's what matters) you get very different conclusion (1)

Countries With Lower Gun Ownership Are Safer than Those with Higher Gun Ownership, Reports The American Journal of Medicine

A new study reports that countries with lower gun ownership are safer than those with higher gun ownership, debunking the widely quoted hypothesis that guns make a nation safer. Researchers evaluated the possible associations between gun ownership rates, mental illness, and the risk of firearm-related death by studying the data for 27 developed countries. Their findings are published in the current issue of The American Journal of Medicine.

Cont; HERE

1 = See:

Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International Evidence

[HackerF15E]

I hear also that countries with higher rates of car ownership have more auto accidents.

[WillBrink]

I hear also that countries with higher rates of car ownership have more auto accidents.

Nooooooooooooo

[THCDDM4]

Great. Yet another BS report I am going to have to spend copius amounts of time debunking/explaining to idiots who don't research or understand the way the statistics are represented.

I'm getting tired of doing peoples homework/thinking for them...

It is sad how few critical thinkers still exist in this day and age.

They take whatever they are given and just eat it up instead of actually putting in the time to understand what they are looking at and what it means when broken down objectively.

Most of them wont even look at the study, just take the conclusion and run with it all over social media! So frustrating!

Yay!

[Phillygunguy]

As a person who works in healthcare in regard to the article, I CALL BULLSHIT !
Did anyone think because the US is so friggin over populated may come into play? more people = more violence regardless of having guns or not

[WillBrink]

As a person who works in healthcare in regard to the article, I CALL BULLSHIT !
Did anyone think because the US is so friggin over populated may come into play? more people = more violence regardless of having guns or not

The levels of BS one can call on this study are almost endless really. How that could pass peer review is telling of how biased the med community is on this topic. The excellent study I linked above, does an excellent job of attempting to account for the obvious variables (and of course concluded gun ownership does not = increased murder nor suicide rates...), got exactly zero press of course and was not exactly published in some rinky dink journal either.

[ramairthree]

Yep,
because I would feel way safer living in a country with fewer per capita guns, no plumbing, no sewer, no modern hospitals, and people come massacre our village with machetes

than

in the USA on a street where I wave to the WWII vet, the Korean War vet, a couple of VN vets, and every other house is a current or former Ranger Bn, SF, or other SOF unit veteran and there must be a ton of scary guns.

[SpankMonkey]

Great. Yet another BS report I am going to have to spend copius amounts of time debunking/explaining to idiots who don't research or understand the way the statistics are represented.

I'm getting tired of doing peoples homework/thinking for them...

It is sad how few critical thinkers still exist in this day and age.

They take whatever they are given and just eat it up instead of actually putting in the time to understand what they are looking at and what it means when broken down objectively.

Most of them wont even look at the study, just take the conclusion and run with it all over social media! So frustrating!

Yay!

Quit talking to stupid people. No more problem.

[dhrith]

That rebuttal article is excellent. Although a long sumbitch.

[WillBrink]

That rebuttal article is excellent. Although a long sumbitch.

Article I posted or something else? The second article I linked to pre dates this new POS "study" by years BTW, but it's a A+ to be sure.