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Sez who, you might ask? Ah, drilling down in the Military.Com article, I can see it was a so-called "nationally representative survey" as reported in The Journal of Affective Disorders. Well, shuckens, they didn't poll me or the stat would've been worse, at least by their definition of "unsafely".
OK, truthfully now - I'd have just told 'em where to put their survey. So who did they poll? Do you suppose they only got answers from - wait for it now - folks with affective disorders?
And where did that alarming headline come from, anyway? It could actually have been written, "More gun-owning veterans are now storing their firearms safely", since the article actually states that the most recent survey shows improvement compared to stats from 2015 when the survey was last conducted. Yeah, I agree; the reported 2% improvement isn't much to crow about. In fact, if (as the article states) "the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have invested heavily in recent years to encourage safe storage practices", then maybe that was misguided spending.
OK, truthfully now - I'd have just told 'em where to put their survey. So who did they poll? Do you suppose they only got answers from - wait for it now - folks with affective disorders?
And where did that alarming headline come from, anyway? It could actually have been written, "More gun-owning veterans are now storing their firearms safely", since the article actually states that the most recent survey shows improvement compared to stats from 2015 when the survey was last conducted. Yeah, I agree; the reported 2% improvement isn't much to crow about. In fact, if (as the article states) "the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have invested heavily in recent years to encourage safe storage practices", then maybe that was misguided spending.