A recent report by the Center for Gun Violence Solutions, which is part of Johns Hopkins (Michael) Bloomberg School of Public Health, conflates private gun ownership with armed insurrection in order to advocate for expanded gun control.
The 32-page study, which is titled “Defending Democracy: Addressing the Danger of Armed Insurrection,” not only revisits and revises the Jan. 6th protest – even though no protesters were armed and the only casualty was 35-year-old Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by Capitol Police – it resurrects actual armed insurrections from American history, such as Shays’ Rebellion of 1786, the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791 and the American Civil War.
The three authors, who are all attorneys with a history of paid anti-gun activism, clumsily raise the insurrection boogeyman to push for additional regulations for carrying firearms, tactical training prohibitions, additional gun-free zones, expanded Red Flag laws, and the repeal of state preemption statutes, which has long been a major goal of the gun ban industry. Preemption laws prevent local jurisdictions from enacting their own gun-control regulations, which would result in a patchwork of gun-free zones.
Their authors’ warped message is to be expected, especially when you consider the biased nature of their backgrounds, their sponsors, their sources, and Michael Bloomberg’s school itself. (If you type “gun violence” into the school’s internal search engine, it will yield more than 1,000 results.)
The Center for Gun Violence Solutions admits it uses a “public health approach” to identify gun-control solutions, even though a gun is an inanimate object, not a disease, ailment or disorder. The school further claims it uses “rigorous scientific research to identify a range of innovative solutions to gun violence.” However, the authors’ rigorous scientific research turned out to be nothing more than false claims gleaned from biased stories from the legacy media and other anti-gun organizations that masquerade as actual news websites.
The authors used stories from CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, PBS, NPR, VOX, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, USA Today, the Associated Press, PolitiFact, Politico, Slate and the Southern Poverty Law Center. They even used stories from two dedicated anti-gun groups, Giffords and The Trace – the propaganda arm of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control empire.
Biased authors
The report was written by Tim Carey, Kelly Roskam, and Joshua Horwitz. Carey is the law and policy advisor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. According to his bio, he is responsible for “Drafting legislation, regulations, legal reports, legislative testimony, fact sheets, and other advocacy materials.” Before moving to Johns Hopkins, Carey was the law and policy staff attorney for the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
Roskam is the director of law and policy at Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, she was the general counsel and legal director for the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Roskam’s bio also states she interned at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Horwitz is the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Before joining Johns Hopkins, he too worked at the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, serving as executive director.
Biased report
The authors claim their report is both an examination and a warning about the threat that “armed insurrectionism poses to democracy in the United States.”
“The growing presence of firearms in political spaces in the United States endangers public health, safety, and the functioning of democracy,” the report states. “Far from being an outlier, the January 6th insurrection at the United States Capitol was part of a long line of events in which individuals have sought to use political losses to justify violence or threats of violence to disrupt our government and limit civic engagement.”
As stated, the policy recommendations presented by the authors are merely longstanding goals of the gun-ban industry, which would help propel them toward their ultimate goal of total civilian disarmament. The only difference is that now their policy recommendations are presented as necessary to “address the dangers of armed insurrectionism.”
Biased sponsors
“We would like to thank the Joyce Foundation and the Morningstar Foundation for supplying core support for this report,” the authors wrote.
The Joyce Foundation is firmly committed to gun control. According to their website, the Joyce Foundation seeks to:
- Advance and implement federal, state, and local policies and practices that reduce easy accessibility of guns to those at risk of violence
- Support policies to reduce easy accessibility of guns to those at risk of violence
- Reduce the next generation’s exposure to gun violence through education on the risks of gun ownership
- Litigate to defend evidence-based gun policies and challenge extreme gun rights policies and practices
The Morningstar Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1982. In fiscal year 2017, the Morningstar Foundation reported $16,533,591 in revenue and $14,476,618 in expenditures, which included grants to many left-of-center organizations.
Some of the recipients include:
- Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence
- The Southern Poverty Law Center
- States United to Prevent Gun Violence
- Violence Policy Center
In 2001, Johns Hopkins University renamed its School of Hygiene and Public Health to the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The change came after Michael Bloomberg donated more than $100 million to the university – the largest cash gift in the school’s 125-year history.
“I’m grateful and proud to have my name linked with the world’s greatest public health school,” Bloomberg said in 2001. “I’ve always supported Johns Hopkins just because it gives me great personal pleasure to be associated with faculty, researchers. and students who do such tremendous work on issues that really matter. This honor is really icing on that cake for me.”
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About Lee Williams
Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
These boneheads that try to push gun control too far are going to be the ones that cause a civil war. There are a few things where I have drawn a line in the sand. The battles of Concord and Lexington were triggered by attempts to disarm the citizens.
Just think, if “Trump supporters” were out of the way, liberals, feminists, Africans of America and cross dresser nation would finally have the world to themselves.
After the Rapture those committed to these kinds of ideology will have their way. It will be hell on earth.
Forgive me brother, but “the rapture” is not in the Bible. The rapture was made up by a methodist minister in England.
Oh, yes…God is going to clean the mess up that CHRISTIANS let happen by taking it out on the rest of us. LOL! Seems to me you’re a lot like the child that messes up the living room and hopes that the Easter Bunny will clean it up before Mom and Dad come home. Do some research. The RAPTURE is a purely made up idiotic “doctrine” that some moron named Scofield propagated through the Scofield “study” bible that so many read thinking his notes were somehow a revelation from God himself.
So you dont think that the creator of heaven and earth is unhappy about the almost 1 million of his unborn children that have been killed and we all have done little or nothing to stop it. .P.S. when he comes to check on us or has had enough of the shite show we have made ,there will be HELL to pay !That is just one of the EVIL things going on, WE have all done nothing about there are many more things just think on it!
You blame CHRISTIANS for the evils in this world? LOL! That right there is funny!
No “Raptural escape clause”, pard… Check it out, Jesus promised that there will be a Great Tribulation which will be so intense as to threaten the very Elect… Gird up your loins, friend, we may see it in our lifetime, the lefties and social scum hate us for what we are…
They’d screw it up in record time and blame it on Trump supporters.
And they would be right! Because LOTS of Trump supporters will be shooting them in the face.
The very thought of that will give me sleepless nights for several weeks…..
Don’t think about what they are going to do. Think about what we will do to them, and sleep well.
Every time I hear some tofu-fueled Leftist mouthing off in a particularly martial and aggresdive manner, I remind him, “99% of the rifles, ammunition and proficiency with said kit is held by the Right, dickhead”.
Warning heard and already anticipated. Christ predicted your hatred and violence.
No hatred, just another form of work. I am a now retired professional soldier. My job was to destroy the enemies of the United States. My oath was and remains “.. to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and … domestic.”
Welcome to the site.
That’s what they want. For you to cower under your bed worrying about the big bad boogie man and his F16 fighter jets. What they forget is that F16 fighter PILOTS don’t live in those jets and what will they do when the PILOTS either defect to the right side or are picked off one by one by militia?
Did you mean that this would be as effective as our current administration?
A world where the Stalinists are free to pile them all into mass graves.
And don’t forget the MILLIONS of ILLEGAL aliens storming our borders and the South American countries that are giving us payback for the decades of US interference by letting all of their violent criminals join the caravans and head to the land of plenty. Land of plenty is right. Land of plenty of IDIOTS that are letting this continue. They kick veterans out of housing to put ILLEGAL’S in them. They are building apartments to house ILLEGALS and letting them stay there for free for up to 2 years while we have HOMELESS VETERANS LIVING IN THE F**KING STREET! Are… Read more »
Old – wouldn’t they need passports (or at least visas) to enter Canada??
F n A!
“Those that ignore History are doomed to repeat it!”
And those who rewrite history INTEND to repeat the errors of the past.
“Too far”? How much gun control is acceptable? I am willing to compromise with an “18 to purchase” restriction on handguns.
Why? How about the age some Union and Confederate soldiers were? ELEVEN.
I would by stock in that idea.
…buy…
Jan 6 was no insurrection. Jan 7 was, when the traitors in congress certified a fraudulent election. There is no such thing as “extreme gun rights”, there is infringement (every gun regulation) and there are our civil rights, gun ownership among them. And these rights are absolute. Every gun law is an infringement which turns citizens into potential victims by limiting their rights to arms. Every gun law empowers criminals by limiting the ability of citizens to defend themselves.
Can you say ‘setup’ ?
It should be that every gun law that an enforcement officer tries to enforce turns them into potential victims because WE AREN’T GOING TO STAND FOR IT ANYMORE THAN THE COLONISTS DID AT CONCORD GREEN. When THAT starts happening…THEN WHAT? The psychopathic control freak parasite POLITICIANS have no teeth without THEIR PSYCHOPATHIC CONTROL FREAK PARASITE ENFORCERS. WHEN are people going to wake up to this REALITY?? And the enforcers HAVE THE ability to say no. They can’t just say “I was doing my job”. THAT IS NOT AN EXCUSE to VIOLATE UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. PERIOD. A thief is a thief, badge… Read more »
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” The second amendment, THE constitutional LAW of the land. This is something that every person who is sworn into office has sworn to defend. My answer to the assertion that more gun control is needed to prevent a civil war is: gun control, alone, by itself, is likely to be a cause of the coming civil war. The reason the second amendment was written into the constitution is to give the free, un-incarserated American citizenry a… Read more »
Ditto, what you just said.
Bill, all of us who served swore that same oath. And, as you note, there is no sunset clause to that oath. There are still quite a number of us, from Vietnam through Iraq and more, who have the training and disposition to forcefully defend our absolute rights under the Constitution.
Fewer than 50 elitists are actually the ones creating havoc in a world of 8 BILLION today. Put that with what you just said and let it sink in.
Yeah, and in the back ground, the world over, I hear the sound of steel against sharpening stone while pitchforks tines are being sharpened. I feel in my bones that kerosene is being stockpiled everywhere as the torches are being assembled. The symbol of the Bastille is about to be stormed EVERYWHERE that the masses are waking up. The psychopathic control freak PARASITES that are sucking out the lifeblood of the average working man is making it so that they will have nothing left. And what these monsters have not figured out yet is that WHEN YOU OWN NOTHING, YOU… Read more »
And people like Stewart Rhodes are in a cage because they were considered to be “anti-government” when it came to J6. What a stinking joke.
One would think that the lawyers behind this charade would’ve at least read the Bill of Rights in one of their classes, coupled with even the smallest little bit of history leading up to the Revolutionary war and the Founding, and would understand why the BOR is there. Do they think that if the general citizenry is disarmed that they’re going to be the elite and protected class? Have they pulled the curtain back on that? They should familiarize themselves with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Yes, they should also familiarize themselves about Concord Green and Lexington. AIM SMALL, MISS SMALL!
““A well regulated militia, being NECESSARY to the SECURITY OF a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” The second amendment, THE constitutional LAW of the land. This is something that every person who is sworn into office has sworn to defend.” I was surprised you missed part of the first 13 words. And of course that is one of the REASONS we are in the mess we are in today. BECAUSE THOSE THIRTEEN WORDS are being IGNORED. Let alone remembered when we write something about them. There is a REASON… Read more »
If you want a civil war, this is how you get a civil war. Even the best behaved dog will fight if you push it into a corner.
Gee I wonder what a LION would do.
Risk of insurrection arises from those threatening to remove civil rights. They seem to wish to leave no option as long as our states remain part of the union. Would prefer ejecting the anti-rights crowd. Far as I’m concerned they are welcome to colonize that island of floating plastics in pacific gyre known as the great garbage patch.
Send them all to Epstein’s Island so they can use each other for their “pleasure”. I JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE!
Thing about the “garbage patch” is that it is made up of microplastics – ie itty bitty pieces, making moving there a swim for one’s life. Good luck 1000 miles from solid ground.
There was a time in America where individuals such as those would have been tarred and feathered.
…and run out of town on a rail…..
Or strung up to a lamp post with a hempen rope until dead.
Yes, I would say I agree with you. We are WAY past the tar and feather and run out of town point. Like the 1990’s we were way past!
their future could be bright as a gas fueled fire, would be fun to watch
These fools say our “Democracy” is threatened if we don’t pass more gun control. Correct, but we don’t have a “Democracy.”
Actually, our Constitutional Republic is threatened by gun control.
You mean what REMAINS of our Constitutional Republic.
Whenever you see a national politician say “Democracy” when referring to our form of government, it is a safe bet that he or she is sending out a recognition symbol or a shout-out to their fellow New World Order or Deep State comrades elsewhere in and around our Government. It crosses party lines. Some doing this might just be ignorant, or so I once thought. Others know, or should know, better. The frequency of the misuse of “Democracy” is too common to simply be ignorance or carelessness. Pay attention and notice who sends out this little shout-out or be caught… Read more »
first use of that phrase applied was a communist named fdr, who set up first gun restrictions and money controls (recalling gold from citizens)
Remember that old example? A democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. We are a Democratic Republic. Can’t forget that.
As child in school I stood with my hand on my heart and made a pledge to my flag and country and that pledge still holds true today as a senior citizen. Anyone who is to spineless to honor the Untied states of America and the constitution need to leave America for thier Utopia wherever it may exist.
These slime want us to leave for the utopia we want to exist while they turn the USA into a fifth world hell hole.
Actually, the liberal media, gun control politicians, and activists are the real insurrectionists who are trying to overtake the country. 2A is there to protect the Constitution AS WRITTEN. At least they recognize what out forefathers said about 2A and our duty.
“2A is there to protect the Constitution AS WRITTEN” ACTUALLY it is there for this purpose: A well regulated Militia, being NECCESSARY to the SECURITY of a FREE State
How in the hell will “more gun control” prevent a civil war? That premise is flawed from the start. There are already enough guns in the hands of free Americans as to render their arguments moot. The three clowns responsible for this “study” appear eager to display their ignorance of responsible gun ownership and would rather focus on the erroneous facts behind their near-sighted approach. Gotta love the First Amendment!
when the various political parties in 1920s Germany got violent, the Wiemar republuc started cracking down on firearm ownership. The National socialist German worker’s party did not participate and voilia! they took power.
I’m sure these imbeciles at the Hopkins don’t see the relation between groups like Ant Teefa and Burn Loot Mayhem and National Socialists of 1920s Germany.
I like the 1st amendment because I can respond them with “Go F**K yourselves!
These anti-gun researchers sound like a bunch of bobbleheads in a circular firing squad. One of them says something outlandish and the rest nod their head in agreement while spewing the same garbage. All without any critical evaluation of how stupid their statements are.
Yes, we need more Guns and Gunowners to protect ourselves from the civil war being waged on us by the Socialist Democrat Party.
Call them what they really are the COMMUIST PARTY of AMERICA. They have been pushing their crap on us for so long that we don’t even realize where we are in reality. Well HERE is reality.
I just posted it on GAB.
The events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 06, 2021 were a very low level riot lasting only a few hours – the violence didn’t rise to ANYWHERE NEAR the weeks and months of nationwide mayhem from the BLM/Antifa “mostly peaceful protests” of 2020. Anyone who three years later STILL terms the actions of that unarmed Capitol crowd an “insurrection” is being deliberately deceitful.
Anyone who conflates Jan 6 with the Civil War – even indirectly – should never be taken seriously. And that includes persons associated with this Johns Hopkins work of fiction.
Well, it’s good to know that at least TWO of us noticed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klVhCkhOTRQ
These three are trying to be sneaky. This article is attempting to disguise firearms confiscation by calling it gun control. That is the ultimate goal of people like these. They hide behind the Constitution to spout their nonsensencial opinions but they will shred it in an instant to further their Socialist agenda.
Serious about avoiding a second civil war…..quit trashing America, pushing Socialism, control over We The Little Peeps. Otherwise, lock ‘n’ load.
Further evidence of the collapse of Progressive New Left ideology and policy. Have these three considered one simple fact set? That fact set is the violent crime rate in each and every urban area where their ideology is the dominant if not exclusive guide to all public policy and in those places that public policy is all encompassing and all encroaching. Progressive Utopias like Chicago, LA, Seattle, Portland. Minneapolis (when not on fire) and yes, right in their own back yard, Baltimore are examples of their prescriptions at work. Were it not for these Progressive Utopias the US would have… Read more »
They don’t CARE about what you just said. They use THAT as an excuse to disarm the rest of us. They want us disarmed because they know that if they keep this shit up they will be getting really bad headaches as .308 lead enters their frontal cortex. They are PSYCHOPATHIC CONTROL FREAK PARASITES that can’t be PARASITES if the host KILLS THEM.
Doctor’s make really bad politicians and that’ what this is all about! They call it the practice of medicine because they have not got that right yet so……
Tell me about Ron Paul and his son Rand Paul. Bad politicians?
There are always outliers.
Exception to the rule.
Yep, “doctors” practice on you just like a lawyer practices law as one beholden to the state.
Nice to see someone else gets it. This site’s userbase and especially staff need to be more informed.
Bloomberg and his minions can go to hell.
First of all it’s 2nd Revolutionay war, not civil war.”We the People” is not from 1860.
Considering the current economical climate, maybe a 2nd Shay’s rebellion is needed?
And first, we kill the lawyers….. who said that?
These guys are pathetic. They need concentrate their efforts on supposedly what their expertise is, medical. They along with CDC screwed up Covid so badly that they had as much to do with Covid deaths count as the desease it self.
They’re original suggestions as of this time is credited to more deaths in ‘Gun Free Zones’ than all other public areas combined.
Well, it is commonly reported that Ashli Babbitt’s was the only death resulting from the January 6 demonstration. But, another woman was beaten to death by police unnecessarily, by the name of Rosanne Boyland.
Maybe there should be education regarding the risks of non-gun ownership…..6,000,000 unarmed Jews in WWII, PolPot’s Killing Fields,et el.
About that 6 million number…https://ia804602.us.archive.org/8/items/ththn/The%20Hoax%20of%20the%20Twentieth%20Century%20by%20Arthur%20R.%20Butz%20%281976%2C%202015%29/The%20Hoax%20of%20the%20Twentieth%20Century%20by%20Arthur%20R.%20Butz%20%281976%2C%202015%29.pdf
Thirty million civilians murdered during World War Two.
Over one hundred million civilians disarmed and murdered by their governments in the Twentieth Century.
The more tyrannical the government. the greater the need for a disarmed and subjugated populace.
“We bear arms to keep from becoming enslaved by the federal government AND to protect ourselves from the tyranny of OUR REPRESENTATIVES, whose dereliction leads us to suffer the same fate of foreign nations.” – George Mason
I find the quote most apropos, but I cannot find it in any of Mason’s works. Do you have a source, so that I can avoid being accused of misattribution.
https://austincountynewsonline.com/constitutional-lesson-gun-control/
it looks like he took from the arguments for passage of constitution in Virginia ratifying convention
Well, they sure missed that by 180 degrees. Gun control is already fueling the possibility of a civil war not preventing it. Pritzker’s registration scheme sure worked like a charm, didn’t it? Like so many other multitudes of effing “experts”, they need to stay in their lanes.The country will be better for it.
A little late to the game if they think they can stop us from having enough guns and ammo to fight back.
Idaho rednecks alone probably have more ammo than the taliban ever had.
Dude, Idaho only has, like, double-digit residents lol
wrong
florida guard looses more grenades and ammo than they fire at the range …..fell off truck syndrome
Well, except for what was left behind. Over 300K M-4’s
Great article Lee! Thanks bud! Keep ’em comming…
all that would do is to cause it to get here faster we will not put up with the idiots that think they can curb our gun ownership and get away with it it just won’t happen that way
Please help me here. The report cited in this article states that numerous people involved in 01/06 were armed and that others were also stockpiling firearms nearby. I didn’t think any of this is true. Can someone fact check this for me please?
did you see any one armed besides the police?. all propaganda my friend
That’s exactly my point. How can three supposedly “prominent” lawyers state this in writing when it is complete fiction? Where’s the credibility with anything these days?
I seem to recall around the time of J6, gun owners or “militia” were traveling to DC to march while openly carrying arms. I recall thinking that this might get interesting, as in Lexington/Concord. Carrying guns openly in DC is a big no-no, so were these people prepared to use them if an attempt were made to confiscate them and make arrests? As I recall, the armed citizens were disarmed and arrested without incident. No doubt, they are now minus their weapons and have criminal records which make them prohibited persons for life. WTH did they prove? How much better… Read more »
they were putting that out to get people to come armed, the insurrection narrative was already planned, they had to change a lot to make their new lie look good, they are currently after people that got copies of surveillance video that shows government people lied in court
Numerous as in the Oath Keepers. They were ready at Trump’s order to do what was necessary. OATH KEEPERS are NOT anti government. That’s for damn sure.
Just more proof that the anti gun zealots have their brains installed backwards in their heads. Try to confiscate our guns and you WILL have a CIVIL WAR that won’t be too civil. I wonder if is a genetic defect that causes the brain to be grown backwards like that…AND AGAIN…I WILL SAY…WE NEED THE FIRST 13 WORDS BACK IN FORCE AND EFFECT. As Crowder would say…PROVE ME WRONG.
UPDATED today! One complete documentary at the bottom along with the trailer of another.
There were other fatsl casualties of the Jan. 6 Battle a for The Republic; the young Boyland woman , beaten to death with a stick by a black, female Capitol Kripo officer, for example.
That was another blatant example of black on white violence as these black “officers” like to find reasons to kill white people. That slime that shot Ashley Babbit better keep watching his back for the rest of his decrepit life. And this bitch should too.
If those idiots at JH think that the next civil war will be fought with guns, then they are less knowledgeable than I thought. Just look at all the civilian toys and techniques that the Ukrainians used at the beginning of their war, and we will be taking their stuff and using it against them. Now with AI we need not bomb a building or shoot a single person (except for an example to the rest). Look at the flash mob and swarm techniques that the organized theft rings are using. I am not, however, saying that the affair will… Read more »
Pushing all the right buttons, placing their blame on someone else and calling the opposite team the bad guy which they are!! Sounds like they are worried for a reason that is warranted. A smart person would stop smacking at the eagle and stop trying to put it in a cage.
When Trump wins, America will take a big change and the left will start it.
SECOND CIVIL WAR NEEDED TO PREVENT MORE GUN CONTROL
There, I fixed it for you.
All of these liberal whiney-bags can suck it. I’ve witnessed people “at risk of violence”.
If unarmed demonstrators raising cain comprise an “insurrection”, what do you call violent, armed, rioters shooting at police officers, and looters burning out city centers? Violent revolutions? Just wondering…
No, those are mostly peaceful demonstrations. As seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igzNAzcXNBA
sure berg is just a waste of space, Davo’s is where the real criminals of earth meet up an plan our demize.
What is a demize?