NRA members and gun safety
2018-03-01 21:25:56.766501+01 by
Dan Lyke
4 comments
Looks like a reason to increase NRA membership! (And probably why my gun enthusiast friends are GOA members instead...): Harvard Medical
School: A Surprising Safety Benefit — Firearm injuries drop during NRA conventions, research shows.
Various reprints of the press release:
The paper is a letter to NEJM, all the usual caveats apply: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1712773
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#Comment Re: NRA members and gun safety made: 2018-03-02 18:40:50.221911+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Twitter thread by one
of the authors.
I'm still trying to work out the meaning of this: The
Washington Post says there's reasonable to be skeptical of the NRA's claim of 5 million
members, but if 5 million members is true, that's 6-7% of
American gun owners.
The NRA claims about 80k attendees at the National
Convention.
So in in 62.5 NRA members goes to the national convention, or somewhere between 1 in 893
to 1042 gun owners. Yet when they go to the national convention, firearms accidents drop
by 20%. I realize that's probably a lot of gun ranges closed, but holy crap!
#Comment Re: NRA members and gun safety made: 2018-03-02 18:49:46.542316+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Related to that Harvard/NEJM thing yesterday which suggested that ~.1% of gun owners (NRA
convention attendees) are linked to 20% of unintentional firearms injuries (probably
because gun ranges are closed during that event), 30 day mortality risk is lower for
patients admitted to teaching hospitals with acute myocardial infarction when the 2 big
national cardiology meetings happen (mortality risk is the same for non-teaching
hospitals):
https://jamanetwork.com/journa...rnalmedicine/fullarticle/2038979
#Comment Re: NRA members and gun safety made: 2018-03-03 12:30:10.359489+01 by:
DaveP
I realize that's probably a lot of gun ranges closed,
I don’t know of any gun range that closes due to any NRA convention. Haven’t seen it happen in
over two decades of shooting.
#Comment Re: NRA members and gun safety made: 2018-03-05 02:53:47.955168+01 by:
TheSHAD0W
What exactly counts as a "firearm-related injury"?
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