NRA Meetings Reduce Injuries with Guns | An Obvious Reason

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- A study written about in Scientific American found that during NRA conventions, injuries with guns drop.

I read the headline and thought, that makes perfect sense. With the NRA making national headlines, more people are thinking about the safe handling of firearms, people have become sensitized about guns and accidents, even briefly, and they are making less mistakes.

In addition, people who are considering crimes become sensitized to the danger of armed victims, and likely postpone or change their criminal behavior, if only momentarily. Most gun injuries are intentional and related to criminal behavior. According to the study, 20% of all injuries involving guns are accidental.

The effect should be concentrated in areas where the meeting is held, because those eas receive the most publicity. In terms of crime, criminals would know there were likely to be more armed victims in town during an NRA annual meeting.

There are good reasons to believe highly publicized events change public behavior, at least for short periods.

The authors of the study used peculiar, strained, reasoning. They made several assumptions.

First – If NRA members were in the NRA meeting, they were …Read the Rest

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