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Doctoral student opines lying gun owners aren\u2019t being reached with \u2018responsibl<\/a>e\u2019 messaging<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no lack of progressive think tanks out there that claim they\u2019re not coming for our guns, they just want to promote \u201csafety.\u201d The New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center is one of those groups that claims to be all about safety, however they never put out any studies, materials, or articles, on the responsible and law-abiding gun owner, nor any material about the corporeal topics of gun use or ownership. A recent study done by a doctoral student at the GVRC has\u00a0her claiming foul<\/a>\u00a0over potential untruthful survey results.<\/p>\n

In a study published in\u00a0Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology<\/i>, researchers found that based on their answers to a variety of other questions, a group of individuals appeared as though they might be falsely denying firearm ownership when directly asked by researchers.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

While some of these individuals resemble what previous research indicated to be a typical American firearm owner (e.g., white, male), others looked quite different (racial or ethnic minority, female, living in urban environments), highlighting that the landscape of firearm ownership in the United States may be shifting.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSome individuals are falsely denying firearm ownership, resulting in research not accurately capturing the experiences of all firearm owners in the U.S.,\u201d said Allison Bond, lead author of the study and a doctoral student with the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center. \u201cMore concerningly, these individuals are not being reached with secure firearm storage messaging and firearm safety resources, which may result in them storing their firearms in an unsecure manner, which in turn increases the risk for firearm injury and death.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This hiccup that Bond has highlighted is a valuable feature in our evolution in my opinion. Unequivocally, I will personally stand by these statements \u2013 until the medical field shows they\u2019re unbiased \u2013 I don\u2019t suggest exposing whether or not you\u2019re a gun owner to anyone associated with it, without relevant cause. I salute the people that elected to \u201cfalsely deny\u201d their firearm ownership \u2013 even though a false denial would be a double negative, but I\u2019m not the PHD student here.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s really hubris, troubling, and disgustingly elitist is that Bond has this concern that because \u201cthese individuals,\u201d which I\u2019m going to read as meaning \u201cthose\/these people\u201d \u2013 the ones that are \u201cracial or ethnic minority, female, living in urban environments\u201d \u2013 who smartly elected to lie to the center, they\u2019re too obtuse to get proper \u201cmessaging.\u201d Whatever Bond considers safety resources, it\u2019s rather opinionated to assume those people won\u2019t get them because they don\u2019t trust those conducting the study. Bond is beyond out of touch here.<\/p>\n

The Rutgers GVRC has done nothing but put forward an abstinence-only approach to firearms ownership. There\u2019s never any research done on, or paper they put out, that highlights the positive elements of owning guns. Every rabbit hole they go down has a result that has to do with more regulations. Fortunately many of the regulations they\u2019d want to see implemented would be considered unconstitutional if looked at properly with an unbiased approach.<\/p>\n

After following the GVRC acutely since anti-gun Governor Phil Murphy instituted them, pumping taxpayer\u2019s dollars into this gibberish, their main objective seems to have an ends in requiring firearms to be stored in a 100% unusable state. That condition goes directly against the\u00a0Heller\u00a0<\/i>decision I might add. This has been my suspicion for a while and this study\/reporting on it helps fortify that hunch.<\/p>\n

Bond leaves out that every single brand new firearm sold in the United States includes a user manual. Nearly all handguns come with a lock and hard lockable case. In those manuals, there\u2019s general instructions on so-called proper storage. Anyone walking into a gun store to purchase a firearm is approached with plenty of resources in the form of capitalism and altruism. At a shop, there\u2019s generally someone wanting to help new gun owners to be safe, in addition to the fact businesses can only profit by selling more firearm safety devices.<\/p>\n

The problem with Bond\u2019s assertion that those people don\u2019t get appropriately schooled on what she considers proper storage and safety rules is that Bond \u2013 and her ilk \u2013 try to squeeze everything into a one-size-fits-all solution. If we asked Bond or anyone else over at the GVRC about proper storage, they\u2019re going to tell you firearms need to be stored unloaded, in a locked container, and ammunition stored in a separate locked container. I suspect Bond is not going to say that it makes sense to have a loaded firearm in the home for self-defense. The thought of storing a firearm in a night stand loaded, if appropriate for the given household, would be looked at with horror.<\/p>\n

To people like Bond and groups like the GVRC, self-defense via firearm use is abhorrent. So keeping a firearm stored in any condition for ease of use would go against their biases. It\u2019s unfortunate these alleged people of science don\u2019t come standard where bias is completely removed. Follow the science \u2013 pish posh to that for these purposes.<\/p>\n

The rest of the \u201csafety resources\u201d includes what? I\u2019ve never heard the GVRC advocate that gun owners should take an NRA or USCCA training course to learn how to use a firearm. No, safety resources are going to come in the form of their own abstinence-only branded \u201ceducation.\u201d If groups like the GVRC advocated for people to take such branded training \u2013 by name \u2013 they\u2019d have\u00a0some<\/i>\u00a0credibility.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an undertone that Bond was making about those people not being exposed to resources because of these \u201cfalse denials.\u201d Beyond their silly survey, what\u2019s Bond and the GVRC doing to \u201ceducate\u201d respondents? Do they offer self-described gun owners these important resources when respondents say they own guns? And in what form are these resources?<\/p>\n

The study indicates a percentage of firearm owners may not feel comfortable disclosing their ownership status. Among those identified as potentially falsely denying firearm ownership, many were women living alone in urban environments.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The study indicates a good portion of people that have the right idea. While I\u2019m all in favor of accurate data collection, I cannot support supplying any information about whether or not one is a gun owner to the GVRC or groups like it. Physicians and doctors out there may take exception to my advice here, but too bad. When the authors and groups behind these so-called studies make a good faith effort to not inject their anti-gun conclusion before the study has even concluded, then we can have a chat about being honest. They all claim they\u2019re not about \u201cmaking policy,\u201d but that\u2019s total and complete malarkey. I\u2019ve chatted with the \u201cI just want to save lives, I\u2019m not about policy making\u201d doctors, and I conclude they\u2019re lying after reading their rhetoric and papers.<\/p>\n

One of the other things that\u2019s hinted at when talking about messaging is not said in the piece covering the study. Read into comments made by the GVRC executive director:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are several reasons some firearm owners might feel uncomfortable disclosing that they own firearms,\u201d said Michael Anestis, executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center and senior author of the study. \u201cThese results serve as an important reminder that we should not assume we know everything about who owns firearms and that we should ensure that our efforts to reach firearm owners can resonate with broad audiences we might not realize would benefit from the message.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anestis left out one of the newer en vogue buzzwords that all readers need to be aware of. With the narrow exception of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, and a few other very limited number of groups, if the phrase \u201ccredible messenger\u201d is in the literature, run. While I have read some reporting in NSSF \u2013 who makes a good faith effort to protect firearm owners and the industry \u2013 literature where credible messenger was used, generally speaking, only grossly anti-gun think tanks use it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mechanism for these groups is for them to find the right person, to talk to the right people, using them as a puppet to get their own message out. That\u2019s it. It\u2019s agenda driven and has everything to do with policy and culturally appropriating as many people as possible \u2013 to their way of thinking.<\/p>\n

To all \u201cthose people\u201d out there\u2026the \u201cracial or ethnic minority, female, living in urban environments,\u201d welcome to the fray. There are resources out there, which I\u201dm sure you\u2019re well aware of, should you need any. With Second Amendment supporters, there\u2019s an entire community of people that are more than willing and happy to help each other, including you.<\/p>\n

Continue to go with your gut and learn there are trustworthy organizations out there.\u00a0 Let\u2019s call the other groups those who utilize their alleged academic \u201cachievements\u201d to bend pseudoscience into a conclusion that results in our disarmament. Judging by Bond\u2019s complaints, many of you have already figured this out. Kudos for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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