Anti-Gun Propaganda at Univ. of Michigan's Website

University of Michigan Health System ^ | unknow nKyla Boyse, R.N. Reviewed by Richard Solomon, M.D., Barbara Felt, M.D., Sheila Gahagan, M.D.

[FourPeas]

Safety/Guns and Kids

Are my children at risk if I own a gun?

• Every 2 hours, someone’s child is killed with a loaded gun.
• For every child killed by a gun, 4 are wounded.
• 43% of American households with children have guns.
• There is a loaded gun in one in every 10 households with children.
• The risk of suicide is 5 times greater if there’s a gun in the home.
• The risk of domestic homicide is 3 times greater if there’s a gun in the home.
• A gun kept in the home for self-protection is 22 times more likely to kill someone you know than an intruder.

How can I keep my family safe from gun injury?

• The safest thing is not to have a gun in your home, especially not a handgun.
• If you keep a gun, Empty it Out and Lock it Up!
• The best way to reduce gun risks is to remove the gun from your home.
• If your friends or family keep guns, urge them to Empty it Out and Lock it Up!
• Only the parents should know the location of the gun storage.
• Make sure your children do not have access to gun storage keys.
• Ask the police for advice about safe storage and gun locks.
• Lock and store guns and bullets in separate locations.
• When handling or cleaning a gun, never leave it unattended, not even for a moment.
• Teach your children never to touch guns. Make sure they know the dangers of guns.
• Talk with your kids about the risk of gun injury outside the home, in places they may visit or play. 
• Do you know which of your children’s friends have guns in their homes?  Your child might—and might even know where they are kept.  40% of shootings of children under 16 occur in the homes of friends and relatives.
• Talk with your children about guns and violence and about the differences between media violence and real life violence.

Where can I get more information?

Please read this message from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for more information. The AAP has also issued a press release on guns and kids.

Is my child at risk from guns (take this quiz)?

Take the quiz: “Is my family safe?”

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Written and compiled by Kyla Boyse, R.N. Reviewed by Richard Solomon, M.D., Barbara Felt, M.D., Sheila Gahagan, M.D., and Eileen Mollen, Ph.D.

Updated November 2001

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[FourPeas]

Regarding the website's editorial policy, this is found at the bottom of the page:

Our editorial policy The information and links we provide are reviewed by an expert panel of three developmental/behavioral pediatricians and a child psychologist who have decades of experience. In choosing the links we provide, we use strict criteria to ensure that the information is accurate, and the source is reputable. As much as possible, we focus on information that is based on research. In areas where there is inadequate research, we include information compatible with prevailing expert opinion.

This website is updated frequently, but because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, we cannot be responsible for misinformation that may be accessed through the links provided. As always, this website is not a tool for self-diagnosis, and is not a substitute for professional care.

[45Auto]

expert panel of three developmental/behavioral pediatricians and a child psychologist who have simply done a marvelous job of copying (every lying) word for word from the handout we got from the Brady Boob and company.

[Dan from Michigan]

Arthur Kellermann...real reliable...(cough cough bull$hit)

The AAP - Advocacy group pushing for a total ban.

About what I expect from that other school in Ann Arbor.

[Sir Gawain]

Notice the quiz link: http://www.cphv.org/quiz/index.html

[Duckdog]

More the HCI horse $%#*

[Chad Fairbanks]

Now, the question remains, is the definition of "Child" any person between the ages of 0 and 25?

[FourPeas]

I hadn't followed that link (gee, I wonder why?). I guess I shouldn't be surprised. As I'm looking for a specialist to treat my oldest son, I guess I'll be looking elsewhere.

[Dan from Michigan]

BTW - I would like to know what training in gun safety these jerks have had. Where's their NRA certification? If they don't have it, then they can pound sand, since they have nothing worthwhile to say on the matter.

[Sir Gawain]

What can be done about the content of the website?

[Austin Willard Wright]

I like the Hitler quote but it is completely bogus. Both pro and anti-gun people have tried to verify it, without success. We only look silly if we circulate bogus quotes.

[Wonder Warthog]

Oldie but goodie:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/632909/posts

[mabelkitty]

Tell is to Case Western Reserve University.

If someone, anyone, in that school had a gun, he would have been taken out in the first ten minutes.

Because they didn't, it took seven hours, several SWAT units, FBI, and Cleveland Police Department well over seven hours to get it done.

Our military took out Baghdad in less time!

[palmer]

Preaching to the choir:

At this time almost half of all homes in the United States contain guns - close to 250 million guns, these homes contain about 58 million children age 14 and under. With those numbers in hand the anti-gun groups would like you to believe that firearms accidents involving children are at an all time high. But the numbers don't lie.

According to the National Safety Council report from 1998, there were only 30 accidental firearms-related deaths of children under the age of four, and 80 accidental deaths involving firearms for children age 5 to 14. There is no way for these numbers to support the anti-gun groups claims that "15 children a day" (or the current number being quoted on the nightly news) are "killed by guns."

So how do the anti-gun groups come up with their number? They include in their statistics everyone under the age of 19 involved in firearms shootings whether the shooting was accidental or not. These numbers include deaths which occurred as a result of gang violence or during armed robberies. The truth is that more children under the age of four die from drowning in buckets each year than die in gun accidents.

[Dan from Michigan]

Sorry, that quote is bogus.

The "Hitler" Quote That Wouldn't Die: "1935 Will Go Down In History!"

"This year* will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"

---Falsely attributed to Adolf Hitler, "Abschied vom Hessenland!" ["Farewell to Hessia!"], ['Berlin Daily' (Loose English Translation)], April 15th, 1935, Page 3 Article 2, Einleitung Von Eberhard Beckmann [Introduction by Eberhard Beckmann].

This quotation, often seen without any date or citation at all, suffers from several credibility problems, the most significant of which is that the date given (*in alternate versions, the words "This year..." are replaced by "1935..." has no correlation with any legislative effort by the Nazis for gun registration, nor would there have been a need for the Nazis to pass such a law, since gun registration laws passed by the Weimar government were already in effect. The Nazi Weapons Law (or Waffengesetz) which further restricted the possession of militarily useful weapons and forbade trade in weapons without a government-issued license was passed on March 18, 1938. The citation usually given for this quote is a jumbled mess, and has only three major clues from which to work. The first is the date, which does not correspond (even approximately) to a date on which Hitler made a public speech, and a check of the texts of Hitler's speeches does not reveal a quotation resembling this (which is easily understandable when you realize that "Hitler" is commenting on a non-existent law). The second clue is the newspaper reference, which if translated into German resembles the title of a newspaper called Berliner Tageblatt, and a check of the issue for that date reveals that the page and column references given are to the arts and culture page! No Hitler speech appears in the pages of Berliner Tageblatt on that date, or dates close to it, because there was no such speech to report.

Finally, the citation includes a proper name "Eberhard Beckmann," which is sometimes cited as "by Einleitung Von Eberhard Beckmann," which is an important clue itself, because it reveals that the citation was fabricated by someone who had so little knowledge of the German language that they were unaware that "Einleitung" isn't the fellow's first name! The only "Eberhard Beckmann" which has been uncovered thus far did indeed write introductions, but he was a journalist for a German broadcasting company after WWII, and he wrote several introductions to photography books, one of which was photos of the German state of Hesse (or Hessia), which may be the source of the curious phrase "Abschied vom Hessenland!" which appears in the citation. This quotation, however effective it may be as propaganda, is a fraud.

[GunCite note: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, a gun rights group, acknowledges the quote as bogus in the second item of their FAQ.]

[montag813]

Every 2 hours, someone’s child is killed with a loaded gun. For every child killed by a gun, 4 are wounded.

The only problem here is that (1) "Child" is defined as someone UNDER 25 years old! and (2) Most of these deaths and injuries are self-inflicted.

[Dan from Michigan]

The following is authentic:

Der größte Unsinn, den man in den besetzen Ostgebieten machen könnte, sei der, den unterworfenen Völkern Waffen zu geben. Die Geschichte lehre, daß alle Herrenvölker untergegangen seien, nachdem sie den von ihnen unterworfenen Volkern Waffen bewilligt hatten.

[The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.] -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), April 11, 1942, quoted in Hitlers Tischegesprache Im Fuhrerhauptquartier 1941-1942. [Hitler's Table-Talk at the Fuhrer's Headquarters 1941-1942], Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaum-Verlag, Bonn, 1951)

[Blood of Tyrants]

That statement has been proven to be false. But here are some good ones:

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
-- Adolf Hitler - "Mein Kampf" - (1926)

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non ["something essential" lit. "without which not"] for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police."
--Adolph Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938

"All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately ...The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon ... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government."
-- SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
--Heinrich Himmler

"If I had my druthers, I'd go further than legislation. I don't wanna see some people with this weapon at all." -Congressman Henry Waxman May 14, 2001 on .50 cal rifles (Further than legislation? )

"If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!" -Congressman Henry Waxman May 14, 2001 on .50 cal rifles

"I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon that can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States." -Congressman Henry Waxman May 14, 2001