Posted on 03/10/2018 11:06:55 AM PST by marktwain
A study written about in Scientific American found that during NRA conventions, injuries with guns drop.
I read the headline and thought, that makes perfect sense. With the NRA making national headlines, more people are thinking about the safe handling of firearms, people have become sensitized about guns and accidents, even briefly, and they are making less mistakes.
In addition, people who are considering crimes become sensitized to the danger of armed victims, and likely postpone or change their criminal behavior, if only momentarily. Most gun injuries are intentional and related to criminal behavior. According to the study, 20% of all injuries involving guns are accidental.
The effect should be concentrated in areas where the meeting is held, because those areas receive the most publicity. In terms of crime, criminals would know there were likely to be more armed victims in town during an NRA annual meeting.
There are good reasons to believe highly publicized events change public behavior, at least for short periods.
The authors of the study used peculiar, strained, reasoning. They made several assumptions.
First – If NRA members were in the NRA meeting, they were not handling guns. But NRA allows members to carry defensive firearms at the annual meetings.
Second – if the NRA members have very low rates of gun accidents, there would be no change in the number of gun injuries. NRA members who attend the annual meeting are only .1% of gun owners.
The authors speculated that fewer people would be going target shooting or hunting on days of the NRA
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
At best, aggressive data massaging; at worst, pure fabrication.
Let me know
The first time some angry loser
Tries shooting up an NRA EVENT or A GUN SHOW
just yesterday here in yountvilke an angry vet took hostages and shot 3 FEMALE administrators at the VA. they were of course unarmed
He let everyone else go and shot himself
NRA is all about safety - most credible gun safety training proudly carries the banner that it is NRA sanctioned/approved...IOW, the NRA is the elite standard for gun safety.
Absolutely!
This story sees to have gone to ground. I haven't seen any follow up. Who was this guy?
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