Following Amendment advocate calls conclusions ‘ laughable,” biased’
A leading Second Amendment firm recently criticised a Princeton University research that links gun violence to the start of moose hunting time.
Published late in the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network Open book, the investigation is “bogus” and “inherently-biased”, according to a National Rifle Association author.
The authors of the study, led by Princeton scientist Patrick Sharkey, said they compared the deer hunting season’s stop to those that occurred the week before using data from 854 remote counties across the United States.
Their results, which were published in” Elk Hunting Season and Firearm Violence in US Rural Counties,” are comparable to those of earlier studies that” showed that weapons prevalence is associated with an increase in the risk of weapons violence,” according to the authors.
The authors wrote that” this study suggests that the start of deer hunting time is associated with a significant increase in murders.”
According to the study, they found” that the start of deer hunting season was associated with a significant increase in shootings” over the course of seven years of data.
The findings “underline the role that weapons occurrence plays in gun crime and suggest the need for targeted policies to combat it in areas with high levels of searching activity during the first weeks of moose hunting period,” the authors wrote.
The University of California at Irvine and Rutgers University were the other scientists who participated in the study.
However, Mark Chesnut, a Second Amendment activist and author, called their summary “laughable.”
” In my 25-plus years of reporting on false, inherently-biased anti-gun studies meant to turn the common, via the so-called” major “media, against secret firearm ownership, I’ve never seen one very as laughable…” Chesnut wrote Wednesday in a column at NRA Hunters ‘ Leadership Forum.
He wrote:
]T] his” review” was nothing more than a ridiculous waste of money and time. It did not establish that any of the higher shootings were actually the result of deer hunting or had anything to do with moose hunting or elk hunting season. It did never “find a horizontal relationship between shootings and hunting certificates per person.” Plus,” The start of moose hunting season was associated with zero effects on general violence, as well as a decrease in alcohol-related arrest”, according to police information.
It would be just as simple to say that murders increase in remote regions around the Thanksgiving vacations because the first three days of deer season good cover Thanksgiving week-end in the vast majority of those regions.
Despite the flaws, standard news sources “lapped it up”, including U. S. News &, World Report, Forbes, NBC News, and CBS News, he wrote.
What the” study” is supposed to do is refute the accepted mistake that more guns in community make people less safe, despite the fact that only weapons in the hands of criminals make world less safe, according to Chesnut.
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