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A study disproves the NRA's talking points

David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, has been conducting a study regarding guns, gun violence, and whether or not the National Rifle Association's talking points are at all valid. Unfortunately for the NRA, to this point, the study's findings send a very clear message to the powerful gun lobby: "You're wrong!" Hemenway modeled his study off the 2010 study on climate change, where it was reported that 97% of climate scientists believe humans to be responsible for global warming. He and his team of researchers looked through 1,200 gun-related articles published since 2011 "in peer-reviewed journals focused on public health, public policy, sociology, and criminology." Hemenway then sent surveys to the authors of these very articles on a monthly basis (up to 300 per), asking these gun experts an array of questions regarding the topic. To this point, nine surveys have been completed, with approximately 100 of the gun exper...

Interesting Twitter experience over the weekend

Over the weekend, I posted this late-night tweet: "Breaking news from Fox: Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Obamacare site, IRS, Benghazi. Fox News - always fair and balanced. #OrNot" It received many favorites, re-tweets, and humorous commentary from followers. However, as I awoke the next morning, I was greeted with a couple of comments from a follower's friend who was an obvious Fox News fan. "Stop drinking the koolaid! OCare has failed! What about all of O's other messes?" and "I'll be smiling when you all see your healthcare prices going up! I'll really be laughing at you then!" To the first comment, I simply replied, "How can a law fail before it has been fully implemented?" In regard to the second comment, I said, "You'd be happy to see people have trouble attaining affordable health insurance? Are you the tin man or something?" Her next replies included the following words: Obamacare, socialism, ko...