Guns are useful for defending yourself from a home invasion

[branford]

67. Well, here's a fact...

The government can, and does, thoroughly study gun violence. I should know, my former employer, the USDOJ, National Institute of Justice, engages in or sponsors much of that research, and something as easy as a Google search reveals ample evidence of this fact, although much of which does not support gun control arguments. Further, even the CDC is actually free to study firearm violence, they just cannot engages in firearm politics and advocacy. If they were so sloppy and partisan before, they wouldn't even have these restriction.

In any event, we hardly need government sponsorship to study anything to do with guns, violence, or much anything else. There are ample private researchers at universities, foundations, and interest groups, the majority of which are actually anti-gun (to say nothing of a pet billionaire), who can and do study the issues. You might just need to accept that the "truth" is not defined as results you agree with.

Complaint about lack of government funding for studies of gun violence are little more than whining that the government no longer subsidizes gun control advocacy.