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« Media bias on self-defense | Main | ATF HQ'S Toilet terrorist task force »

NIH back to funding gun control studies

Posted by David Hardy · 19 October 2009 07:41 PM

Story here.

"NIH records show that one study being questioned by lawmakers aimed to "investigate whether adolescents who consume alcohol and/or carry firearms, and/or whose daily activities occur in surroundings rich in alcohol and/or firearms, face a differential risk of being shot with a firearm or injured in a non-gun assault.""

That's something a lot of us have long wondered about. Once we have the study's results, we'll know at last whether it is wise to give guns to drunken teenagers.

13 Comments | Leave a comment

W.Richards | October 19, 2009 7:54 PM | Reply

Finally I'll be able to sleep at night once this question has been answered. We couldn't have just stopped at the "Runs with scissors" study?

Jim D. | October 19, 2009 8:55 PM | Reply

The last study I saw from them was about the high likelihood of getting shot in a gunfight if you had a gun.

So, I'm thinking, mutual combat. Everytime they both get shot, the numbers double. No controls for gang on gang shootings where five or more have guns in a gunfight and many get shot.

How often is there a gunfight between two people and NO ONE gets shot?

Not answered in the study.

dagamore | October 20, 2009 2:02 AM | Reply

Wow do they have enough and/or statments in there. I bet they also have a "differential risk" of getting a traffic ticket, or getting cavities, or smoking, or or or ......

bill-tb | October 20, 2009 6:43 AM | Reply

Own a gun, your health care premiums will be double ...

Cemetery's Gun Blob | October 20, 2009 8:02 AM | Reply

How can any study regarding teenagers be credible if it doesn't include teen pregnancy rates?

Clayton E. Cramer | October 20, 2009 1:30 PM | Reply

I was thinking the same thing: what next? Studies to see if supplying alcohol to teenagers increases sexual activity?

Kristopher | October 20, 2009 2:53 PM | Reply

How about another study ... does the death rate amongst teenagers increase when you give them whiskey and car keys?

Jim | October 20, 2009 2:58 PM | Reply

Every factor is and/or, thus the study might show only: "whether adolescents who consume alcohol ... face a differential risk of being ... injured in a non-gun assault."

I can tell you the answer to that question ...

Jim K | October 20, 2009 3:38 PM | Reply

This study reminds me of a Federally sponsored study on child injuries involving tricycles I read when I was in college in the 70s. After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars the study concluded that the design was inherently unstable and recommended the addition of a fourth wheel. If they had taken the time to ask any one with common sense they could have come up with that answer without spending a dime. Episodes such as that study make me think academics have had the common sense they were born with educated out of them.

Billy Oblivion | October 21, 2009 1:13 AM | Reply

"I was thinking the same thing: what next? Studies to see if supplying alcohol to teenagers increases sexual activity?"

This study was done, and the conclusion (IIRC) was basically that while there is some increase in sexual activity (about 5% if memory serves) when alcohol is introduced, generally teenagers just need to be left somewhere more or less private.

Dave R. | October 21, 2009 1:35 PM | Reply

That is some ballsy phrasing right there! "...consume alcohol and/or carry firearms, and/or whose daily activities occur in surroundings rich in alcohol and/or firearms..." In other words, even if they find guns have a "non-differential risk," but alcohol has a "differential risk," they're set to lump the two together in their report and recommend restrictions on firearms. Invidious... but I have to admire their cojones.

Marcus Poulin | October 23, 2009 4:31 AM | Reply

So it worries me when Obama will start his anti-gun stuff again?

He must have not ben around for 1994 or maybe he really just wants to destroy the Democratic Party.

straightarrow | October 23, 2009 11:38 PM | Reply

Man that shit is really going to marginalize a great many of our soldiers when we are apprised of the pre-determined conclusion of the study.

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