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This American doesn\u2019t care.
\nI\u2019m not safer driving to work vs taking the train but I\u2019m still not taking the train. This notion of \u201csafety\u201d as a general state of being is an illusion that neurotic people obsess over. Being safe is a series of actions taken to mitigate unnecessary risk in an inherently dangerous environment or undertaking. <\/em><\/p>\n

You can exercise gun safety by actions you take when handling a gun, you can take safety precautions when driving a car by being alert, using a seatbelt, etc but nobody on earth lives in a perpetual state of inherent safety. We never have and we never will.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a lie sold to people by the media and the powerful in order to accumulate more power at the expense of our rights and liberties and it needs to be called out.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many Americans Still Wrongly Think Guns Make Us Safer<\/a><\/p>\n

Large portions of the American public still believe false claims of all kinds about guns, the COVID-19 pandemic and reproductive health, a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows.<\/p>\n

Though the poll found that percentages of Americans who believe that false claims are \u201cdefinitely\u201d true is small, the portion who think they are \u201cprobably\u201d true is substantial. Overall, between half and three-quarters of the country belong to what KFF CEO Drew Altman called the \u201cmuddled middle,\u201d saying that the false claims were \u201cprobably\u201d either true or false.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most striking of the poll\u2019s findings is the incorrect belief, held by many Americans, that guns make them safer. Sixty percent of Americans believe it\u2019s true that armed school police guards have been proved to prevent school shootings. Eighteen percent of respondents thought the claim was \u201cdefinitely\u201d true and 42% believed it \u201cprobably\u201d true.<\/p>\n

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In fact, as KFF noted, no studies have shown this, and researchers in 2021 found that in an examination of 133 cases of school shootings and attempted school shootings from 1980 to 2019, \u201carmed guards were not associated with significant reduction in rates of injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, 13% believed it was \u201cdefinitely\u201d true and 29% believed it was \u201cprobably\u201d true that people who have firearms at home are less likely to be killed by a gun than people who don\u2019t have a gun. That\u2019s also false: Studies have shown among other things that guns are rarely used in self-defense, that living with a handgun owner is associated with substantially elevated risk \u2014 particularly for women \u2014 of dying by homicide, that the spike in gun sales after the Sandy Hook mass shooting was linked to an increase in accidental deaths, and that handgun ownership is associated with elevated risks of death by suicide.<\/p>\n

Forty-two percent of people also falsely believe it\u2019s either \u201cdefinitely\u201d or \u201cprobably\u201d true that most U.S. gun homicides are gang-related.<\/p>\n

Though statistics on gang-related homicides can be unreliable, statistics from the Justice Department\u2019s National Gang Center, which were flagged by KFF, indicate that, between 2007 and 2012, gang-related homicides roughly accounted for just an estimated 13% of all homicides annually.<\/p>\n

Misconceptions about COVID-19 and its vaccines were less common, but still believed by potentially millions of Americans. Though COVID-19 vaccines are extremelysafe and effective at preventing serious disease and death among people infected with the virus, fully 33% of American adults think COVID-19 vaccines have caused thousands of sudden deaths in otherwise healthy people \u2014 10% think the claim is \u201cdefinitely\u201d true and 23% think it\u2019s \u201cprobably\u201d true \u2014 a reflection of the success of conspiracy theorists in spreading lies about the jab.<\/p>\n

And 6% of Americans think it\u2019s \u201cdefinitely\u201d true, and 26% think it\u2019s \u201cprobably\u201d true, that ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19, even though multiple studies have shown the claim is simplyfalse.<\/p>\n

On reproductive health, 31% wrongly think it\u2019s definitely or probably true that \u201csex education that includes information about contraception and birth control increases the likelihood that teens will be sexually active,\u201d and 35% wrongly believe its definitely or probably true that \u201cusing birth control like the pill or IUDs makes it harder for most women to get pregnant once they stop using them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, studies have shown that comprehensive sex ed leads to reduced sexual activity, among other benefits. A 2018 review of 22 studies enrolling nearly 15,000 women found that, regardless of duration and type, past contraceptive use doesn\u2019t delay or negatively affect women\u2019s ability to conceive.<\/p>\n

The KFF survey polled 2,007 U.S. adults in English and Spanish between May 23 and June 12, reached either online or over the phone, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points.<\/p>\n

The poll also pointed to potential interventions for Americans\u2019 incorrect beliefs on various health topics: doctors. Ninety-three percent of respondents indicated they trusted their own doctor\u2019s recommendations at least a fair amount, according to the survey. That was followed by federal agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration; about two-thirds of Americans have at least a fair amount of trust in those agencies to make the right recommendations on health issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This American doesn\u2019t care. I\u2019m not safer driving to work vs taking the train but I\u2019m still not taking the train. This notion of \u201csafety\u201d as a general state of being is an illusion that neurotic people obsess over. Being safe is a series of actions taken to mitigate unnecessary risk in an inherently dangerous … 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":[11,95,89,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-mendacity","category-observation-o-the-day","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95364","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=95364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95365,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95364\/revisions\/95365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}