{"id":36539,"date":"2013-07-08T16:28:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T20:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36539"},"modified":"2013-07-08T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T20:29:09","slug":"misleading-guns-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36539","title":{"rendered":"Misleading guns report; One in four injured youth owns a gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

James sends us a link to a Reuters article entitled “One in four injured youth owns a gun: study<\/a>” a terrifying tale of a heavily-armed population of young people trolling our cities’ streets each with an “automatic or semi-automatic firearm”. <\/p>\n

Close to one-quarter of teenagers and young adults treated for assault injuries in a Michigan emergency room reported owning or carrying a gun, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

Most of those weapons were obtained illegally, researchers found, and 22 percent of young gun owners said they had an automatic or semi-automatic firearm.<\/p>\n

“I think the surprise, if there is any here, is the numbers really are quite high,” said Dr. Robert Sege of Boston Medical Center, who wrote a commentary published with the new report in the [J]ournal [of] Pediatrics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An emergency room in Michigan. You know, rural Michigan with pink-cheeked, pigtailed, innocent children. Well the one emergency room that the good doctor surveyed happened to be in Flint, Michigan. Business Insider<\/a> named Flint, Michigan the single most dangerous city in the US last month. So, who is surprised that the doctor would find a quarter of the patients in an emergency room in Flint “owned” guns. And, even the “owned” thing can come into question. Dr. Patrick Carter’s (from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor) survey was of ER patients ages 14-24, and as far as I know, it’s illegal for most of the people in that age group to “own” a gun.<\/p>\n

More than 80 percent of gun owners said they obtained their firearm from an illegal source – including family and friends, or through a cash purchase.<\/p>\n

Gun owners were more likely than other members of the study group to use illicit drugs and to agree that “revenge was a good thing,” the researchers found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the point of the survey?<\/p>\n

But the U.S. Congress remains divided on issues of gun control, with the Senate rejecting a plan to expand background checks for gun buyers in April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So how will a strengthened background check regimen stop the proliferation of guns in these cases? Will 14-year-olds voluntarily show up from a NICS check before they get their Glock? Should one of the questions on the application for a gun purchase ask if the buyer thinks that “revenge [is] a good thing”? It already asks about illicit drug use. Of course, the paragraph above is just Reuters interjecting their editorial opinions into the article, since the doctor who did the survey leans more towards getting parents to change their children’s attitudes towards guns.<\/p>\n

“I would say to parents, talk to your kids about firearms and the dangers associated with firearms and try to look at ways to prevent kids from getting involved in both substance use and violence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That, at least, makes more sense than expanded background checks. Of course, the title of the piece extrapolates the number of armed teenagers in Flint to the rest of the country, which is totally irresponsible journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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