Why US liberals are now buying guns too

[gejohnston]

89. the study mentioned is probably not a valid study

First, the department and Hemenway's salary is funded by the Joyce Foundation, the same people who astro turfs the Brady Campaign and VPC. Chances are, the study has never been peer reviewed. Hemenway himself is an activist, not an agnostic researcher. He, and other gun control public health researchers engage in advocacy scholarship. That is a nice way of saying shill study. He and the Bloomberg school of public health at Johns Hopkins start with the conclusions they want and create a "study" to get the desired results. It isn't unique to the gun prohibition lobby of course. Climate change "skeptics" and "health studies" funded by the junk food industry.

Hemenway's study often cites a study by ER doc named Author Kellerman. He started with the "more likely than" series. For years, Kellerman resisted peer review, after the CDC gave him millions for the study. When he finally submitted his raw data etc for peer review by a couple of criminologists. His first number was 64 times more likely to shrank to 27 then to 2.5 without ever coming up with a valid study.
If you actually read the Kellerman study, gun ownership (even though there was no evidence any of the home invasion victims owned the gun they were killed with) was one of the lowest risk factors. What topped them? Renting, smoking pot, drinking alcohol, among others.