Reply to NRA convention in TX

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "NRA convention in TX"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]This made me remember this article about how gun deaths fall in America during NRA conventions because 80,000 gun owners are occupied in seminars.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/28/health/gun-injury-nra-convention-study/index.html
[quote]
During National Rifle Association annual conventions, when about 80,000 gun owners spend a few days focused on seminars, events and meetings, America seems to be safer, new research suggests.

More specifically, the rate of firearm-related injuries when NRA members gather en masse falls by 20% nationwide, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
When a state hosted a convention, and presumably a higher percentage of local gun enthusiasts attended, gun-related injuries in that state fell 50%, said Dr. Anupam Jena, the study's senior author and an associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
The Harvard-led researchers looked at the number of hospitalizations and emergency room visits tied to firearm injuries during convention dates and the three weeks before and after conventions. To reach their conclusions, they combed through nearly 76 million medical insurance claims filed by privately insured patients between 2007 and 2015.
Will a signal from the top mean more gun violence research?
Will a signal from the top mean more gun violence research?
Injury reductions were most significant among men from the South and the West, where gun ownership -- and likely NRA membership -- is greater.
"Fewer people using guns means fewer gun injuries, which in some ways is not surprising," said Jena, who is also a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. "But the drop in gun injuries during these large meetings attended by thousands of well-trained gun owners seems to refute the idea that gun injuries stem solely from lack of experience and training in gun use."[/quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics