More Bogus “Gun Injury Studies” by Just Plain Stupid “Researchers”

By NRAHQ

Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- Have you heard the latest breaking news?

“A study pokes holes in the idea that experienced firearm users are less likely to injure themselves.”

“To see gun injury drop, hold an NRA Meeting.”

“Gun injuries fall during NRA conventions.”

A Harvard doctor and a Columbia grad student published a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine this week that found gun injuries drop 20% during the NRA’s Annual Meeting. The researchers used more than 75 million patient observations over a nine-year span, using the three weeks before and after the Annual Meetings as a control. The argument coming from this letter, as noted in Scientific American:

If guns were perfectly safe in the hands of trained NRA members, Jena and Olenski reasoned, they should have found no differences between gun injury rates on convention days versus other days. Yet injury rates were, on average, 20 percent lower on meeting days.

“We believe this is due to brief reductions in gun use during the dates of these meetings,” …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand