American Medical Association devotes journal to gun control efforts

Coming up on today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co we’ll be speaking with one of the doctors involved in a new study that found increasing gun sales does not lead to increased crime rates; an important finding given the insistence of pro-gun control advocates and politicians that more guns equates to more crime.

This study is also a bit of an outlier in the medical community, where it’s far more common to see research papers promoting various gun control proposals. In fact, the most recent Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is dedicated to “gun violence”, with a heavy emphasis on gun control as a public health response.

Daily firearm violence and repeated mass shootings “serve as grim reminders that every person in the U.S. is potentially vulnerable to firearm violence,” JAMA Executive Editor Phil Fontanarosa, MD, MBA, and Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, wrote in an editorial about the issue.