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The Court has recognized limits on rights - even freedom of speech. “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” Schenck v U.S., 249 U.S. 47, 52 (1919). 3/13
First, there are the number of guns. Too many people own too many guns and too few know a damn thing about gun safety. That explains why the mechanism of death for so many people is a firearm. 4/13
Second statistics on gun deaths are important. We know how many people die: bullet in head can be pretty clear as reason why a person became “decedent” on State form. There are statistics that might help reduce gun violence. 5/13
Pew Research Ctr summary of gun deaths, in “2017, the most recent year for which complete data [are] available, 39,773 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S. according to the [Centers for Disease Control].” 6/13
Third, Jay Dickey, Arkansas Congressman, sponsored budget prohibitions in 1996, result of NRA lobbying: CDC cannot advocate or promote gun control. Despite mass shootings, CDC has not performed any such studies since 1996. 7/13
Most of the research into deaths from guns has been conducted by economists, sociologists, or criminologists. See “Firearms Research”, Scientific American, updated from 496 Nature 412-415 (2013). 8/13
With nearly 40K deaths/year, we should expect health-related studies. In 2017 approximately sixty percent (60%) of gun deaths were suicides (23,854). Any such studies have been blocked, effectively, by the NRA. 9/13
Fourth: stifling of facts goes further. Tiahrt Amendments ban “trace data” collected by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE) being released for use by cities, states, researchers, litigants & members of public. 10/13
Nobody, in other words, can use those stats. To trace availability of guns, from burglaries and thefts of those guns, to subsequent gun deaths, could help to prevent gun deaths. Of course, that might lean to closing gun purchase loopholes. 11/13
Ppl who favor unfettered traffic in firearms - who argue, for example, guns prevent > deaths than they cause - should welcome peer-reviewed studies & facts. Lincoln said, “Let the people know the facts and the country will be safe.” 12/13
I am Mark Small, a candidate for U.S. House in Indiana’s 5th Congressional District. I favor study of deaths and injuries from guns. I’ll write more about gun control in the next couple of days. I approve of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 13/13
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