Four Fabrications About Firearms
…Science gun control analysis says, “Some gun control policies may reduce the number of gun suicides, but they have not yet been shown to reduce the overall risk of suicide…
Read moreFive Fallacies About Guns and Violence
…with strict gun-control laws have less gun-related deaths A Washington Post op-ed by Ezra Klein and a New York Times house editorial both affirmed that states with strict gun-control laws…
Read moreHow Often Do Citizens Use Guns to Stop Violence?
…members who had used a gun for defense during a situation in which they thought someone “almost certainly would have been killed” if they “had not used a gun for…
Read moreProgressive Myths About Mass Shootings and Weapons of War
…strategy involved calling them “assault weapons,” a phrase that is almost identical to “assault rifles”—the most common type of military firearm. In 1988, Josh Sugarmann, the founder of a gun…
Read moreDeadly Falsehoods About the Orlando Shooting and Gun Control
…and politicians call an “assault weapon.” The 2011 AP Stylebook defines this term as follows: A semi-automatic firearm similar in appearance to a fully automatic firearm or military weapon. Not…
Read moreShould the U.S. Adopt Australia’s Strict Gun Laws?
…Australia’s 1996 gun laws and government-funded gun buyback prove such policies are effective in stemming violence. Versions of this narrative have recently been circulated by ABC News, the New York…
Read moreMedia Misinformation About Arming Teachers
…President Trump said: “A ‘gun free’ school is a magnet for bad people.” “Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/coaches” would be a “great deterrent” to school shootings. “If a potential ‘sicko…
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…side even if you had a gun. And, chances are that if you would have had a gun, then he would have been able to get that from you and…
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In the case of D.C. v. Heller, 4 of the Supreme Court’s 9 justices claimed that “for every intruder stopped by a homeowner with a firearm, there are 4 gun-related…
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Are AR-style rifles useful for home defense? 2 A 2015 article in the magazine Tactical Life summarized the views of eight firearm experts about what weapon they use to defend…
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