https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.ph ... 16&EXT=pdf
Arthur Z. Berg, MD
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
azberg@harvard.edu
John R. Lott, Jr.
President, Crime Prevention Research Center
johnrlott@crimeresearch.org
(484) 802-5373
Gary A. Mauser
Professor Emeritus, Department of Marketing, Simon Fraser University
mauser@sfu.ca
Revised
August 20, 2019
This PDF is a long read—40 pages—but it makes an important point......that gun control advocates pick researchers who will review the data from a public healthcare perspective, while criminologists and economists both tend to be very skeptical of the methodologies of the public health sector.
I’m only a few pages into the paper so far, but if I had to distill it down so far, I’d say that the public health sector
starts with the premise that guns in America
are a public health problem, and then they cherry pick their numbers to support their preconceived conclusion.
Criminologists and economists start with the
question: are guns in America a public health crisis? They then follow the data wherever it takes them. Of the two, economists are even more likely to be skeptical about different proposed gun legislation than criminologists—and both groups are more skeptical than public health researchers. Why? Because the numbers don’t support the health sector's conclusions.
Anyway, I saved a copy of the PDF to my drive, and I’d recommend doing that. This is an invaluable tool in debating with the gun grabbers.
