A brief, friendly reminder

Owning a gun does not make you safer. In fact, scientific research overwhelmingly suggests the opposite.

In a Los Angeles Times op-ed published April 22, 2015, David Hemenway of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health summed up the issue succinctly:

“Can reporters please stop pretending that scientists, like politicians, are evenly divided on guns? We're not."

It's a pity that basic facts like these are so routinely ignored in the aftermath of widely publicized tragedies involving firearms.