'Gun Control' Researchers Should Realize: It's
the Criminal, Not the Bullet's 'Case Fatality Rate'

Instead of advocating for prosecutors to get tough on criminals who break the law, keeping them behind bars longer rather than being released with a slap on the wrist, researchers have been keeping themselves busy in a flurry of "research" to tell us what we already know. Firearms are deadly. That is, after all, why law-abiding citizens use firearms for self-defense.

That is why gun rights advocates, Second Amendment supporters and self-defense proponents take firearm education and training so seriously. With great privilege (exercising Second Amendment rights) comes great responsibility.

Several researchers teamed up to publish a recent article in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) titled, "Bullets as Pathogen—The Need for Public Health and Policy Approaches." The results were not at all earth-shattering – that larger bullets cause more damage than smaller ones – but policy recommendations resulting from the "research" could be far-reaching, if impractical.

"It is past time to address the ultimate cause of injury and death, the bullet, and consider bullet-specific regulations to decrease the burden of firearm injuries in the U.S.," the authors proclaimed. .....