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To See Gun Injury Drop, Hold an NRA Meeting

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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When the National Rifle Association holds its national convention, gun injuries drop 20 percent—perhaps because fewer gun owners are around their guns. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

0:39.0

The annual meeting of the National Rifle Association is coming up in May.

0:43.3

It's scheduled for Dallas, and if past events or any guide, gun injuries may actually go down in Texas during the event.

0:50.0

When the convention is held in a person's state in that year, gun injuries fall.

0:54.3

Anupam Jaina, an economist and physician at Harvard Medical School.

0:58.5

Jaina and his team discovered that surprising link

1:00.8

by tracking visits to hospitals and emergency rooms for gun injuries

1:04.3

during nine years' worth of NRA conventions.

1:07.3

And they found the number of people hurt by guns dropped 20% during NRA meetings, compared to the

1:12.9

same days of the week, three weeks before and after the show. There is no definitive causal link here,

1:19.0

but the researchers do have a few ideas. First, could be avid gun users are at the show, away from

1:24.7

their guns, or shooting them in more supervised situations, and

1:28.5

thus unable to injure themselves or others. Or if some members of a regular gun club are out of town,

1:34.7

maybe the group postpones its meet-up the week of the show, thus avoiding accidents that

1:39.1

otherwise might have occurred. It could be the case also that people who own venues where firearms

1:44.0

might be used,

1:44.8

like firing ranges or hunting grounds, may be likely to attend these conventions. And if those

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