Stricter State Gun Laws Tied To Fewer U.S. Teens With Firearms

[sarisataka]

173. You are entitled

To your opinion, naturally and I wouldn't expect it to be anything different.

His words taken at face value indicate a prejudice against any gun use. Criminals using guns, victims defending themselves and even suicides are all perpetrators of gun violence and not differentiated in any way. Logically such a viewpoint would combine those distinct actions under a single total of gun violence. It would show the core of Gun Control is not about victims but about guns.

As Hemenway is also the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center it would call into question the validity of all gun studies produced by those groups. Since those groups are the source of the overwhelming majority of statistics showing the dangers of gun ownership and debunking of studies favorable to defensive gun uses, it would question if the the base data used to support gun control is simply biased propaganda.

I have attempted to find any follow up questions posed to Hemenway questioning his quote or an elaboration volunteered by him. As best I can tell there is no such clarification so I take his quote as his stance on gun use. My conclusion is he sees little to no difference between offensive and defensive gun use.