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...”
“Health risks of owning a gun are so established & scientifically non-controvertible that the Amer Acad of Pediatrics issued policy stmt in 2000 recommending pediatricians urge parents to remove all guns from their homes”—Next GOP NRA passes law prevent Drs from telling patients.
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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…#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.
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