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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...