http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/features/reader/0,2061,575483,00.html
Dick Dahl
"Public-health professionals working in the area of gun violence are lauding a recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report calling for a major national effort to improve research on gun violence.
On Dec. 16, NAS issued its report, 'Firearms and Violence,' which pointed out that a sensible national response to gun violence is lacking, hampered by insufficient knowledge about gun ownership, gun markets, and gun use.
The report said that the current levels of knowledge about the relationship between firearms and violent crime, for instance, is too weak to support strong conclusions about various measures to prevent and control gun violence. It singled out assertions made by supporters of 'right to carry' laws, which now exist in 34 states, as being based on faulty claims that these laws deter crime."
