minnpost.com/second-opinion…#IfYouHaveAGunInYourHome If you have a gun, everybody in your home is more likely than your non-gun-owning neighbors and their families to die in a gun-related *incident, suicide or homicide...
#IfYouHaveAGunInYourHome Furthermore, there is no credible evidence that having a gun in your house reduces your risk of being a victim of a crime. Nor does it reduce your risk of being injured during a home break-in.
#IfYouHaveAGunInYourHome The health risks of owning a gun are so established and scientifically non-controvertible that the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy statement in 2000 recommending that pediatricians urge parents to remove all guns from their homes.
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Strategies used by Big Tobacco, successors & various controversies: 1) the coal industry & black lung disease, 2) the sugar industry & both cardiovascular & metabolic diseases, 3) the agrochemical business & chemical pollution, and 4) the fossil fuel industry & climate change. /1
They found that all of the industries would use *disinformation* tactics like: 1) gaining support from reputable individuals, 2) misrepresenting data, 3) attacking study designs, 4) using hyperbolic & absolutist language and (of course) 5) trying to influence lawmaking. 2/
Other popular disinfo tactics include 1) manufacturing misleading literature, 2) suppressing incriminating information, 3) host bad faith conferences & seminars, 4) pretend to be defenders of health, 5) abusing credentials and 6) taking advantage of scientific illiteracy. /3
Franklin D. Roosevelt called out the American Liberty Lobby for attempting to impose a fascist government during his final speech in the 1936 presidential campaign.
minnpost.com/second-opinion… 2/ “If you have a gun, everybody in your home is more likely than your non-gun-owning neighbors and their families to die in a gun-related *incident, suicide or homicide...”
3/ “Furthermore, there is no credible evidence that having a gun in your house reduces your risk of being a victim of a crime. Nor does it reduce your risk of being injured during a home break-in...”
minnpost.com/second-opinion… “If you have a gun, everybody in your home is more likely than your non-gun-owning neighbors and their families to die in a gun-related incident, suicide or homicide.”
“Furthermore, there is no credible evidence that having a gun in your house reduces your risk of being a victim of a crime. Nor does it reduce your risk of being injured during a home break-in...”
minnpost.com/second-opinion… “Furthermore, there is no credible evidence that having a gun in your house reduces your risk of being a victim of a crime. Nor does it reduce your risk of being injured during a home break-in.”
minnpost.com/second-opinion… The health risks of owning a gun are so established & scientifically non-controvertible that the Amerj Academy of Pediatrics issued policy statement in 2000 recommending pediatricians urge parents to remove all guns from homes. #NRALawForbidsDrsFromTellIng