Everytown’s Editorial Arm, “The Trace”, Pushes Propaganda on Self Defense & Firearms

By Justin Stakes

Fairfax, VA -(AmmoLand.com)- Bloomberg’s “The Trace” reported last week “breaking news” that anti-gun researcher David Hemenway has “debunked” the myth of self defensive gun uses in America.

Of course, this “breaking news” amounts to nothing more than another failed attempt by Hemenway to challenge common sense and shared experience here in the United States. Hemenway has been trying (and failing) for nearly two decades to undermine the groundbreaking work of Florida State University’s Gary Kleck, which showed that firearms are used approximately 2.5 million times per year in self defense situations. You can read Kleck’s most recent response to Hemenway here.

And even beyond Kleck’s work, we might suggest to Hemenway that where social science flies in the face of common sense and the shared experience of millions of Americans, a new “hypothesis” might be in order. A simple review of the real accounts contained in The Armed Citizen would be a good place for him to start an earnest evaluation.

It is also interesting that “The Trace” article points to the Hemenway study as “new.” In fact, the Hemenway study came …read more

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