The Newtown gun violence tragedy has influenced opinions inside and outside United States (US). Los Angeles (LA) County, which has an annual buyback plan to exchange grocery cards for US$100 to US$200 for guns in May each year, decided to hold this event again on December 27, 2012. According to officials, the program duration had […]
Category: Gun violence
More on opposition to gun violence research
As well as the blog I posted yesterday, I intended to mention an excellent piece that appeared in salon.com. One quote in particular caught my attention and previews the tone of the article: David Satcher, the then-director of the CDC, wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post in November of 1995 warning that the NRA’s […]
Disheartening find re firearm injury prevention research i
Editors note: I came across this blog and was convinced it was important enough to reproduce in its entirety. It tells a shameful story, all too well known to IP investigators in the U.S. but not as well known as it should be in the rest of the world. Something must be done to change […]