{"id":88346,"date":"2022-12-05T13:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88346"},"modified":"2022-12-05T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:16:05","slug":"88346","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88346","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

New study by frustrated anti-gun researcher doesn\u2019t tell the whole story<\/a><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Lee Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

More than 1 million Americans were killed by firearms from 1990 to 2021, and firearm deaths increased markedly during the pandemic, according to a study published Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association network titled:\u00a0\u201cTrends and Disparities in Firearm Fatalities in the United States, 1990-2021.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Firearm deaths reached their lowest point in 2004, and then increased more than 45% by 2021 \u2014 a 28-year high \u2014 the study claims. Black males were most at risk for homicide, and white males over 70 had the highest suicide rates.<\/p>\n

The authors analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and used \u201ckey statistics\u201d from the anti-gun group Brady United<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite its flaws, such as a reliance on biased statistics and a lack of causal factors, the report has been embraced by the legacy media and has proliferated across the internet.<\/p>\n

The authors\u2019 conclusion was rather simple: \u201cThis study found marked disparities in firearm fatality rates by demographic group, which increased over the past decade. These findings suggest that public health approaches to reduce firearm violence should consider underlying demographic and geographic trends and differences by intent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s lead author, Dr. Eric W. Fleegler of Harvard Medical School\u2019s Department of Pediatrics, has written numerous anti-gun studies and editorials. Gun-rights experts were quick to point out there was a lot missing from his most recent work.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese figures are revealing for what the study doesn’t speak about \u2014 that is the sharp rise of deaths associated with the criminal misuse of firearms. We see that firearm ownership rose steadily throughout the timeframe isolated by the study’s authors and deaths by firearms dropped through 2004, even as firearm ownership steadily grew. We have witnessed a marked increase of crime over the last several years, as has been reported by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report. However, that wasn’t included in this this study’s findings,\u201d said\u00a0National Shooting Sports Foundation<\/a>\u00a0spokesman Mark Oliva. \u201cDuring that time of increased crime, we have also witnessed \u2018woke\u2019 prosecutors that won\u2019t hold criminals to account for their crimes, no-bail policies that have put criminals back onto the streets within hours of committing crimes and a denigration of law enforcement by election officials pushing policies to defund police. That was echoed just this weekend when Senator Chris Murphy threated to strip local law enforcement of federal funds unless they adopted his gun control agenda. Crime is law enforcement issue and must be addressed as such. There is no inoculation or remedial medication that prevents criminals from committing their heinous acts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnti-gun outlets love to report that \u2018gun deaths\u2019 of whichever kind increase, let alone reach some new record relevant to other years. But the reason is the socially chaotic past 2 years, 2020-21, with COVID, BLM protests and riots, increasing crime with soft DA\u2019s and police leaving the profession due to the disrespect those entail,\u201d said Robert B. Young, MD of\u00a0Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership<\/a>. \u201cHere\u2019s a usually anti-gun doctor researcher, Fleegler, who\u2019s trying to make a point that gun deaths over 32 years approach the great loss of life we\u2019ve seen from COVID. The message is actually the reverse: compared to illnesses, especially COVID, gun deaths are relatively insignificant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amy Hunter, spokeswoman for the\u00a0National Rifle Association<\/a>, also pointed out that soft-on-crime policies, not guns, were responsible for the deaths, a fact missing from Fleegler\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrime rates are soaring. We see that not only in news headlines, but also in neighborhoods where high crime and a lack of prosecutions has residents living in fear,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cFurthermore, law enforcement is hamstrung by policies that favor criminals. Anyone serious about combatting violence would advocate for prosecution of criminals. Adding another Biden or Bloomberg gun control law will not decrease the violence referenced in this study.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should come as no surprise to anyone that people living in large metros that historically have been controlled by Democrats, who are legally prohibited from obtaining the best means to defend themselves are at risk for violence of any kind,\u201d said Alan M. Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the\u00a0Second Amendment Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fleegler is a well-known and somewhat frustrated anti-gun researcher. Last month, he taught a faculty seminar at the University of Michigan titled: \u201cPediatric Firearm Injuries \u2013 The Role of Policies and Pediatricians.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to his\u00a0bio<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Michigan\u2019s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, Fleegler\u2019s research has focused on \u201cfirearm injuries with a focus on epidemiology, risk factors and the role of legislation in reducing firearm fatalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis seminal research has been quoted by President Barack Obama and referenced by the Supreme Court as well as by numerous state legislatures. He is co-director of the Social Medicine course at Harvard Medical School and regularly lectures around the country,\u201d his\u00a0bio<\/a>\u00a0states.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Fleegler published another murky and inconclusive JAMA study titled:\u00a0\u201cFirearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0The study concluded that \u201cA higher number of firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of firearm fatalities in the state, overall and for suicides and homicides individually. As our study could not determine cause-and-effect relationships, further studies are necessary to define the nature of this association.\u201d<\/p>\n

Time Magazine cited Fleegler in a 2018 story titled\u00a0\u201c6 Real Ways We Can Reduce Gun Violence in America.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0In the story, Fleegler castigated the 1996 Dicky Act, which stopped the CDC from using taxpayer dollars to promote gun control. \u201cThe effect of the Dickey Amendment was beyond chilling,\u201d Fleegler is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are thousands of studies waiting to be performed,\u201d Fleegler said in the Time story. \u201cBut you can\u2019t do them because of the money.\u201d<\/p>\n

No media outlet is too small for the good doctor to grant an interview. In 2015, Fleegler claimed gun-related injuries were driving up health care costs. \u201cThese are not just problems for an individual but also an incredible burden on our healthcare system,\u201d he told a reporter for\u00a0a high school newspaper for Santa Monica High School students<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New study by frustrated anti-gun researcher doesn\u2019t tell the whole story by\u00a0Lee Williams More than 1 million Americans were killed by firearms from 1990 to 2021, and firearm deaths increased markedly during the pandemic, according to a study published Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association network titled:\u00a0\u201cTrends and Disparities in Firearm Fatalities … 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":[64,95,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-mendacity","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88346","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=88346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88347,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88346\/revisions\/88347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}