re: Obama's CDC study on Firearms.

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AJAM, like the vast majority of medical publications, is pro-gun-control. They would never publish a study that said otherwise.

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And? I can read a source and make my own decisions.

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John Lott has studied the same topic exhaustively, in far more detail and has continued to update his research as more data has come available and has drawn the opposite conclusion. Gun-control advocates have created a cottage industry in discrediting Lott but they have never been able to argue against the data or his methodologies.

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I have More Guns, Less Crime, and I've only read the introduction and maybe the first chapter, but he wasn't as rigorous with the data as I'd like, instead summarizing or referencing primary source data for a point. I dropped it because it wasn't the type of analysis I wanted, but I'll finish it if you insist his methodologies are sound. It reads to me to be too polemical to be a worthwhile study of the actual data.