{"id":84083,"date":"2022-08-02T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84083"},"modified":"2022-08-02T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:49:08","slug":"84083","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84083","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

When CNN Quotes Everytown Troublesome Facts Kick In<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the weekend,\u00a0CNN reported<\/a>\u00a0on gun control laws passed so far in 2022, adding this reference, \u201cThere is a direct correlation in states with weaker gun laws and higher rates of gun deaths, including homicides, suicides and accidental killings,\u00a0according to a January study<\/a>\u00a0published by Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-profit focused on gun violence prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, an article in the\u00a0Keene Sentinel<\/a>, a newspaper serving southwest New Hampshire, reveals a small problem with Everytown\u2019s research that might raise an eyebrow, if not some serious questions. Headlined \u201cNew Hampshire paradox: State gun laws remain loose as violence rate remains low,\u201d the story\u2019s lead paragraph tells a different tale.<\/p>\n

\u201cNational rankings indicate New Hampshire has some of the weakest gun laws in the nation, and yet the state also maintains a low rate of firearm violence,\u201d the newspaper says.<\/p>\n

The report also quotes State Senate President Chuck Morse (R-Salem), who told the newspaper\u2019s editorial board recently that gun-related violence is a problem of people, not guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a gun problem because look at New Hampshire.,\u201d Morse reportedly stated. \u201cWe have more guns than probably any other state per capita. We have open carry, we passed constitutional carry, and we\u2019re one of the safest states in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The spin from gun prohibitionists is that New Hampshire \u201cmay be benefitting from firearm restrictions in nearby states and that violence statistics are open to interpretation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In New Hampshire, according to the article, \u201cThe average proportion of adults living in a home with a firearm between 2007 and 2016 in New Hampshire was 39 percent, compared to about 30 percent nationally, according to a Rand Corp. study.\u201d<\/p>\n

Underscoring New Hampshire\u2019s contrary-to-the-gun-control-narrative statistics, the Giffords Law Center gives New Hampshire an \u201cF\u201d for the strength of its gun regulations.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the Granite State giving fits to the gun control crowd. The\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0published a story over the weekend about armed teachers that spread across the Internet.<\/p>\n

According to the Times, training volunteer teachers and administrators \u201cis fiercely opposed by Democrats, police groups, teachers\u2019 unions and gun control advocates, who say that concealed carry programs in schools \u2014 far from solving the problem \u2014 will only create more risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cPast\u00a0polling<\/a>,\u201d the story notes,\u00a0\u201chas shown that the vast majority of teachers do not want to be armed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teachers are not being compelled to carry guns, a fact that seems to escape most reports about this project. Only volunteers, whose participation is anonymous\u2014that is, they are not identified as being armed on campus\u2014go through the training.<\/p>\n

It is no surprise Democrats, gun control groups and teachers\u2019 unions don\u2019t care for the program. They are traditionally anti-gun even without such a school safety option.<\/p>\n

As for law enforcement opposition, after Uvalde, their objection may not get much traction.<\/p>\n

The newspaper acknowledged there has been limited research on whether armed teacher programs have been effective. There have been no reports of mass school shootings occurring on school campuses where visitors often see signs saying armed staff are present.<\/p>\n

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When CNN Quotes Everytown Troublesome Facts Kick In Over the weekend,\u00a0CNN reported\u00a0on gun control laws passed so far in 2022, adding this reference, \u201cThere is a direct correlation in states with weaker gun laws and higher rates of gun deaths, including homicides, suicides and accidental killings,\u00a0according to a January study\u00a0published by Everytown for Gun Safety, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,75,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-media","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84084,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84083\/revisions\/84084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}