Before You Get Sucked Into This Bogus ‘Gun Research’

USA  –-(Ammoland.com)- Regrettably Paul at AccurateShooter has posted a story that should NOT be on any pro-gun site –

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2015/07/nearly-a-third-of-americans-own-guns/comment-page-1/#comment-48116

I posted comments but the major one is “awaiting moderation” because it includes a link.

Here are both of my comments:

#1

Paul – please remove this trash. It is either a joke or the folks that posted it assumed no one would read the Supplement. Example:

Participants were asked to respond to EVER ONE of these “Reason for owning a gun” “questions” (this is the COMPLETE list of those “questions”):

• Q5_1 Reasons for owning a gun –‐ Exciting to hold loaded gun
• Q5_2 Reasons for owning a gun –‐ People will look up to me
• Q5_3 Reasons for owning a gun –‐ Feel powerful or protected on street
• Q5_4 Reasons for owning a gun –‐ Feels powerful to hold loaded gun
• Q5_5 Reasons for owning a gun –‐ Don’t owe the world anything
• Q5_6 Reasons for owning a gun –‐ Fun to play around with real gun
• Q5_7 Reasons for owning a gun –‐ Care about how actions affect others
• Q5_8 Reasons for owning a gun –‐ Responsibility to make world a better place
• Q5_9 Reasons for owning a gun –‐ None

To see a count of Yes and No responses to these “questions” and the survey demographics, go to http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/suppl/2015/06/08/injuryprev-2015-041586.DC1/injuryprev-2015-041586supp.pdf

#2

The lead “writer” is one Bindu Kalesan. The footnotes include. “Competing interests – BK is an unpaid Vice-President of Gun Violence Survivors Foundation”

Thank you and God bless!

Oscar Leckliter

Lead Researcher, Webmaster, and Domain Owner

www.elr-resources.com