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Two medical organizations have submitted briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court insisting that gun control is good for public health.[1][2]
Are they right? This essay, which welcomes suggestions by others, looks at the logic and evidence of the impact of gun control on public health.
Fallacies in Arguments Made by the Medical Groups
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Sources
- Roland H. Beason, "COMMENTARY: Printz Punts on the Palladium of Rights: It Is Time to Protect the Right of the Individual to Keep and Bear Arms," 50 Ala. L. Rev. 561 (Winter, 1999)
- http://www.jpands.org/hacienda/edcor6.html (the benefit of firearms for public health)
- http://www.jpands.org/hacienda/comm12.html (Gun death statistics from CDC)
- http://www.jpands.org/hacienda/comm13.html (collecting cases on Second Amendment)
- http://www.jpands.org/hacienda/wheeler1.html (when pediatricians become politicians)