Women owning guns is a public health issue. No, it’s not.

They have a website.

Here: Translation: We tweaked the numbers to make them say whatever we wanted them to.

You remember Wintemute? He’s the guy who walked around a gun show, completely unfamiliar with gun laws, and opined that he thought he saw some illegal stuff. And that was considered a study. Seriously. He was supposedly checking out anonymous, undocumented gun sale, which would be mostly impossible to do. Anyhoo, he’s back. His piece […]

Ryan notes: Sullivan in April 2007 touted the ATF’s “outstanding relationship” with IACP-International Associations of Chiefs of Police. An organization that has been exposed by the NRA as being in the pockets of a large gun control group. Fitting enough Acting ATF Director Michael J. Sullivan was one of the Keynote Speakers at IACP’s Great […]

All the stupid anti-gun arguments in one convenient place! Complete with cites to anti-gun hacks like Hemenway and Miller. Update: well, that was fast. In other news, I don’t even have to do my own fisking anymore.

Harvard’s assault on gun rights continues: States with the greatest number of guns in the home also have the highest rates of homicide, a new study finds. The study, in the February issue of Social Science and Medicine, looked at gun ownership in all 50 states and then compared the results with the number of […]

David Hemenway (an anti-gun hack who asserted that folks who carried guns were more likely to indulge in road rage (despite the fact that there were no notable increases in instances of road rage after states passed concealed carry laws); and refused to release his data) is at it again. This time, the hack asserts […]

Anti-gun hack David Hemenway and company are at it again. For history on Hemenway, clickity. I’d offer criticism, but Jeff already has.

Seems The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Ownership’s Paul Helmke is kickin’ out the propaganda. Helmke is all googoo over David Hemenway’s book that says to treat the gun issue as a health issue. What’s that? Hemenway sounds familiar to you? Of course it does. He’s the anti-gun Harvard hack who asserted that folks who […]

Over at the Media Blog they note that Reuters asserts: More than 30,000 people die from gunshot wounds every year, through murder, suicide and accidents. They note that Reuter’s number hasn’t changed for 6 years (from an article in 2000). Quips Nathan Goulding: This means that one of two things is true. Either, the rate […]

Go here now (about 2:10) to chat with a supposed expert on gun safety. Addison asked: I asked a question. I asked if my low SN 1903 would be safe with modern factory ammo. He is a safety expert, right? Wonder if he’ll answer it? Update: I submitted: You claim Hemenway is unbiased? The DOJ […]

Turns out it’s not guns that cause road rage, but genetics and evolution: Some scientists now think road rage and other personal space disputes — neighbor feuds over intrusive flora or spats with gym hogs who won’t let others work in — boil up from responses selected by evolution to protect resources and ensure survival […]

John Lott has an update on the study that tries to intimate that drivers with guns in their car are more dangerous and notes that Hemenway refuses to provide his data. Update: BTW, I have a copy of the study if anyone wants it.

The New Scientist: GUN lobbyists like to repeat the quote often attributed to American writer Robert Heinlein, that “an armed society is a polite society”. But this is certainly not true for motorists. A survey of 2400 drivers carried out by David Hemenway and his colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that […]

Even Nicholas Kristof, who is your typical uninformed scaremonger when it comes to guns, is telling the Democrats to give up on gun control: Nothing kills Democratic candidates’ prospects more than guns. If it weren’t for guns, President-elect Kerry might now be conferring with incoming Senate Majority Leader Daschle. Since the Brady Bill took effect […]