By Anthony Morelli
The gun control lobby tried to spread a nasty lie about guns.
They were hoping they wouldn’t get caught trying to mislead people.
But it blew up in their faces and now everyone knows the truth.
There is perhaps no job on the planet that is more fraudulent than “gun researchers,” who are tasked with cherry-picking data to try to make guns and gun owners look bad.
They are employed by many major news publications who serve liberal audiences that hate guns and want to see them banned.
But much of the “research” that these people do is completely wrong. And in some cases they will even hide data that doesn’t support their predetermined end result.
That famously happened with the CDC, who deleted data about defensive gun uses at the behest of gun control advocates who complained that it made passing gun restrictions harder.
According to a 2022 article from The Reload, “The Center For Disease Control (CDC) deleted a reference to a study it commissioned after a group of gun-control advocates complained it made passing new restrictions more difficult.”
This is an extreme example of the dishonesty of “gun researchers,” but there is widespread evidence that most of their “research” is totally useless.
According to Bearing Arms, “The phrase ‘gun research’ has long been assumed to actually translate as ‘anti-gun research’ by many on the gun rights side of the Second Amendment debate. The reason for that is how often it really looks like the books have been cooked to favor gun control.”
“A while back, [Bearing Arms editor Cam Edwards] wrote about an interview with a columnist who illustrated why so much gun control research is worthless. There’s a lot of bias being thrown around in these ‘studies’ and it’s funny how literally none of them seem to show any benefit to the private ownership of firearms.”
The article then goes on to expose an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article which claims that the rate of firearm injury is “accelerating to a tipping point of no return.”
This, of course, is nonsense. And as Bearing Arms goes on to point out, “Homicides plunged until 2020 and 2021. There were no repeals of massive gun control laws during that time, except in a couple of states. If guns are the problem, why is it that the number of guns in private hands skyrocketed even as the homicide rate dropped?”
“One of these writers was working in the field when that happened, but there’s no mention of that.”
Clearly the “gun researchers” who contribute to stories like this are nothing more than propagandists for the gun control lobby.
Their work exists to further a political narrative, and it should not be taken seriously in any kind of a scientific way.
Hopefully articles like this one from Bearing Arms will continue to shine a light on the fake “research” that is being done to promote gun control.
If that happens, perhaps people will start to see that the entire gun control agenda is predicated on a lie.