The study was partially funded by the Joyce Foundation, in Chicago, which has "gun violence" as one of its agenda items:
"The Gun Violence Program supports efforts to bring the firearms industry under comprehensive consumer product health and safety oversight..."
Nowhere on their Web site could I find the names of its board members.
http://www.joycefdn.org/programs/gunviolence/gunviolencemain-fs.html
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However, when I Googled the Joyce Foundation, lo and behold!!!:
"A notable recent member of the Joyce Foundation's Board of Directors was Barack Obama, who ran successfully as the Democratic candidate for an Illinois Senate seat in 2004."
And check out who they've funded...
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5310
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Very interesting. Don't you love Google. I hear the CIA uses it too. :)
(b) The Anti-Gun Program seeks to drive small gun dealerships out of business by placing the firearms industry completely under consumer product health and safety oversight. It misrepresents the findings of research on gun-related deaths by failing to distinguish between gun-related deaths among inner-city gang members, where the death rates from shootings are astronomical, and gun-related deaths among members of the general population, which are relatively rare. As a result, it depicts gun violence as a national epidemic, thereby creating a perceived justification for what it hopes will be the erosion of Second Amendment rights.
Nice so they funded a study about something they are against. BIAS!!!! Well as if we didn't know that already.
That's WAY too many lefties! Thanks!
Joyce Foundation Board of Directors:
John T. Anderson, Chairman
Ellen S. Alberding
Robert G. Bottoms
Michael F. Brewer
Charles U. Daly
Anthony S. Earl
Roger R. Fross
Howard L. Fuller
Carlton L. Guthrie
Marion T. Hall
Valerie B. Jarrett
Daniel P. Kearney
Paula Wolff