“We are about evidence, where the truth takes us,” said Jeremy Travis, the foundation’s senior vice president of criminal justice. “We’re not on one side or another of the gun debates that are really dividing the country. We are interested in testing ideas and finding out what works…”
…He hopes that Todd Adkins, the NRA’s research director, might be a conduit to build support within the NRA. “Todd is a PhD and JD. He’s one of us. He’s trained in the law and research,” Travis said…
So much for leftist technocrat’s version of the fair and balanced path to truth.
From https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3#24
…High-quality data that are usable, credible, and accessible are fundamental to both the advancement of research and the development and evaluation of sound policies. Policy makers need a wide array of information, including community-level data and data concerning the circumstances of firearm deaths, types of weapons used, victim–offender relationships, role of substance use, and geographic location of injury—none of which is consistently available. The absence of these kinds of appropriate baseline data make it difficult to answer fundamental questions about prevalence, determine etiology, or effectively evaluate programs for potential reduction of harm and injury. Given civil liberty concerns, it will be important that all data used in research be anonymized.
Some data related to firearm violence may not reflect the full scope of the problem. Firearm violence research is based on statistically uncommon events, which would require very large sample sizes to measure effects in small geographic units of analysis. Consequently, researchers often rely on aggregated (at the national or state level) or proxy measures of gun ownership and violence (NRC, 2005). The result is a lack of individual-level data that could reveal more useful information about local trends and causes of firearm violence…
What I’d like to point out to the technocrat schemers intent on returning to the heady days of feudalism is there is another meaning to the phrase, red flag. Maybe not so well known today in the technocrat circles of flashing lights and programmable pleasantries as it is with US regular people; the meaning of red flag that comes to my mind is the one when a red flag is waved in front of a target when the person shooting at said target misses it completely. That red flag is also known as Maggie’s drawers.
I do hope the technocrat BS artists are pointed to the story of Maggie’s drawers. Their sub-conscious is telling them something.