Surgeon General Cites Fake Mass Shooting Data to Justify ‘Public Health Crisis’ Claim
United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that “gun violence” constitutes a public health crisis Tuesday but cited fake mass-shooting data from the long-debunked Gun Violence Archive to support his spurious claims. Murthy presented his finding in a 40-page Surgeon General advisory, titled “Firearm Violence: A Public Health Crisis in America.” “While mass shooting deaths […]
Hemenway: When it Comes to Guns, the World Goes One Way and America Goes the Other
Gun laws have become much weaker in the United States. In most other countries, when there’s a big mass shooting, it’s a time to examine your gun laws and make them stronger. Australia did that and has been incredibly successful in terms of reducing gun violence. New Zealand did that more recently. The United Kingdom did […]
An Academic Acknowleges the ‘Disastrous, Unintended Consequences’ of Taking a Public Health Approach to Gun Violence
There’s a long and proud history of public health scholars, doctors, and activists taking a health framework to consumer products that kill people. That playbook worked well with cigarettes or faulty seat belts in cars or asbestos insulation. The idea was that if you could show the negative health effects of a product, that would […]
Metzl: We Need a Holistic, Societal (and Expensive) Strategy to Get Benighted Red-Staters to Swallow More Restrictions on Their Gun Rights
I’ve come to believe that in the current moment, when democracy itself is at stake, gun safety needs to improve people’s lives in ways that they can see and feel, strengthen the concrete undergirding civil society, and allow blue and red state Americans to imagine broader coalitions based on shared interests rather than on shared […]