Rigorous JAMA Analysis: Social Media, The Trace Show Bruen Will Result in at Least 152 Additional Gun Deaths In 6 Anti-Gun Jurisdictions

By Lee Williams The U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., v Bruen, which lifted restrictions on carrying defensive firearms and changed forever how lower courts must adjudicate Second Amendment challenges, has created a massive amount of pushback.  Bruen was a big win for gun owners, because the Second … Read more

JAMA: The CDC’s Science is the Solution to ‘Gun Violence’

By Thomas E. Gift, MD In the current Journal of the American Medical Association article with an accompanying editorial, various researchers express their happiness with the resumption of federal funding for the Center for Disease control to look at violence, including “gun violence” (because “guns kill people”). They feel good about the lessening “chill” of the Dickey Amendment’s … Read more

JAMA on ‘Large Capacity’ Magazines: Diagnosis or Symptom?

By Robert B. Young, MD The December 18, 2020 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association included a Quick Uptake news article, “Large-Capacity Magaine Bans Linked With Fewer Mass Shootings, Deaths” (first online December 18). It references a study in the American Journal of Public Health by Louis Klarevas, Andrew Conner and, one of our … Read more