This is BS, I have owned guns for most of my life… and I don’t drink more than one or two beers once or twice a week. More anti-gun BS from the people who want to dis-arm america, the better to control all you weak minded lemmings out there.

Ok this is absolute BS, Regardless of how much someone drinks. If your going to do this story and research lets hear how many people are injured or killed each year by someone under the influence. I hear alot of people who heavily drink own cars too and I also hear that these people cause ALOT more harm. Im glad our tax payer dollars are hard at work for these stupid libs.

People who binge drink may also engage in other stupid behaviors – driving while drunk, running down the middle of the highway, mouthing off to an officer, etc.

Essentially, drunk people do stupid things, including handling firearms. Again, it ain’t the gun’s fault.

The name of the “research program” implies a bias in their study.

They have got to be kidding, according to BS Studies it is conclusive that UC Davis researchers have their heads up their @$$es I own and have owned several firearms and I do not drink period, furthermore it isn’t firearms that are dangerous, its idiots who have no clue on the proper use of them that are dangerous.

UC Davis is nothing but a Liberal study university that promotes Liberal agendas and are so much full of BS that they will forever stink.

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I own quite a few guns and do not drink at all. There is something off about this study. I suspect it was rigged by only calling known alcohol abusers and only logging their responses. What i can say is that i n my experience gun owners are very responsible and I seriously doubt they would participate in any telephone survey of this sort.
In short, this sounds fishy.

LOL at this “study”.

What are the chances I’ll find a bunch of anti gun links if I type the name of the author of the study (Garen J. Wintemute) into google? Pretty likely I’m guessing.

Notably, the data used in support of this “study” was compiled in 1996-1997 and is now 13-14 years old. Additionally, Dr. Wintemute is a board certified family practice physician. I doubt he even has the skills, education or experience to even conduct a valid study in this area.

This is another racist study to take the rights away from minorities. Just like negro mania from the 30′s. Whitemen just want all the power

Right on Ken
I think that almost any study done by UCD is fishy. Done only because of some liberal government grant in which mostley goes in someones pocket.

As a gun owner/hunter who goes to UC Davis currently, I am really glad they raise our tuition every quarter in order to keep funding these bull research projects that answer questions no one except the researcher wanted to know. All this study found was a correlation between owning a gun and heavy drinking. If correlation is causation then the number of republican senators between 1966 and 1982 is a direct result of the number of sunspots at any given time in that range (actual data a statistics professor showed me). This is obviously not true and this article follows the same logic. BS. Really glad I only have one more year left.

funny how they never publish the finding where personal assults are down due to gun ownership

I bet he does not understand the first rule of statistics which states that coorelation never emplies causation

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Who doesnt like to binge drink adn make stOOpid decisions?? ;P

The professor needs to do a study on why so many ugly gay females migrate to the City of Davis. Is it due to solar flares?

LOL!!! Consider the source of this “study”. Pathetic liberal haven. I notice they didn’t include in their study the fact that most of the gun violence occurs in the ghetto where “ownership” doesn’t mean squat… Whats worse is CBS News is actually reporting on this garbage!

[...] author of the study and director of the university’s Violence Prevention Research Program, told CBS 13 Sacramento. “This is of particular concern given that alcohol intoxication also impairs a gun user’s [...]

As for me…

I shoot about 15,000 rounds downrange per year, and drink exactly “0″ alcoholic beverages annually.

My best buddy shoots about 10,000 rounds per year, and will not drink alcohol for religious reasons.

My wife shoots about 1000 rounds per year, and will only have a single alcoholic beverage if there is an occasion to do so.

My oldest son shoots about 5,000 rounds per year, and does not drink alcohol. (My youngest son is a Marine, so I cannot begin to know what he drinks or how much he shoots. I’m sure that Uncle Sam makes sure that both are done in moderation. )

I could go on and on with this, but suffice it to say that I don’t see any correlation between the UC Davis study and the many gun owners I know.

Wow, according to this article, it’s very risky to hang around police.

Hmm? I recall the most binge drinking I have ever seen was in my 20 years living in Florida watching “college educated people” on spring break.

[...] UC Davis study: Gun ownership linked to heavy drinking, CBS 13 [...]

For most people, it’s just common sense that it is never a good idea to consume alcoholic beverages to the point that one’s judgment and physical capabilities are impaired, particularly if one is going to operate a vehicle or other machine, such as a firearm.

But for Garen Wintemute, the longtime gun control-advocacy junk researcher at the University of California at Davis, who promotes himself as “one of the world’s foremost experts on gun-related violence,” talking about alcohol and guns in the same breath is just another way to do what he most likes to do–expressing his feeling that guns and gun owners are inherently unsafe–and getting paid for doing it.

His new “study,” published by Injury Prevention, pushes the idea that gun owners, particularly those who keep and carry firearms for protection, are more likely to drink heavily and often. Not surprisingly, it was paid for by the anti-gun Joyce Foundation, which has given $26 million to anti-gun groups and causes between 2003 and the present, and the California Wellness Foundation. And to make sure the money keeps coming in, Wintemute says “new and more comprehensive [funded] research is needed, since legislation authorizing the public carrying of loaded and concealed firearms has become almost universal in the United States.”

There aren’t too many jobs in which you can get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing not much more than punching the time clock and making sure the boss knows about it. But Wintemute’s sugar daddies and mommas at the anti-gun foundations don’t seem to care. Wintemute even admits the limitations of his latest diatribe.

For starters, Wintemute’s poll depends on the truthfulness of the poll’s respondents. Undoubtedly and understandably, habitual drunkenness is viewed with disrespect in our society, and some people won’t admit such behavior to a stranger conducting a telephone poll. Similarly, people may be unwilling to admit gun ownership to strangers, to protect themselves against being burglarized or placed on gun owner registration lists. It’s not mere coincidence that national polls began showing a significant decline in gun ownership in the early 1990s, as the Clinton Administration’s multi-faceted campaign against the right to arms took shape.

Also, the eight states Wintemute used for his study were self-selecting on a basis he does not disclose. Polls suffering from this limitation are referred to as “SLOP,” for “self-selecting opinion poll,” because the self-selection process can inject bias into poll question responses and severely skew the poll’s findings.

Wintemute’s study doesn’t even try to determine whether there is any greater incidence of mishaps or misconduct, firearm-related or not, among gun owners who consume alcohol. But that might be for good reason. After all, as Right-to-Carry laws have become “almost universal,” the nation’s murder rate has fallen to a 47-year low. Maybe Wintemute understands the meaning of the old axiom, “if you don’t want the answer, don’t ask the question.”

15 thousand people out of some 300 million population? just seems odd, would think 15 thousand out of each state of the union would give a more accurate finding. wonder how participants were selected, random or by city. were cities with high crime selected or were those random too? ucd is extremely liberal as is davis itself so is this study suspect to begin with because of ucd politics and that of davis?

Too bad they won’t release the KNOW results on studies that make them look bad. IE.
Moronic college professors and researchers lead students to binge drinking and risky behaviors.

I call shenanigans. This is another lefty trying to use “science” to ramrod an agenda.

No surprise.

Them “college educated people” aren’t runnin’ around with them guns like them “non college educated people” livin’ in your trailer park who look like Cousin Eddie.

your comments are too long

It’s pretty pathetic that you can’t read something longer than the contents of a fortune cookie.

I am not surprised at all that this study came out of California. It is the only place it WOULD come out of. Hell, living in California is enough to drive you to drinking. Cali… just become your own country, you don’t want to be a member of the USA anyway.

As a Federally Licensed Firearms Manufacture, I can tell you with confidence that Wintemute’s disingenuous research is well established.
Where is the UC Davis Ethics & Compliance Risk Committee when the public needs them?

Bad Science at any level should be questioned, This is why Peer review of articles for publication is so necessary. Personal agenda has to be discounted and this article feeds another witch hunt called gun control. Where would this Professor be without the second amendment…oh yeah…Europe.

Yeah, very well thought out and expressed. And your rejoinder is:your comments are too long.

How the hell did you ever get through the article?

The results of my latest research…college professors with agendas, collecting taxpayer dollars will 99.9% of the time produce results that are biased.

Wham bam thank you, ma’am, my questions are asnerewd!

Me thinks any study coming out of UC Davis is never going to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Study: Lack of gun ownership linked to heavy marijuana smoking.

See? I can make stuff up, too.

@ Clark Whose is to say they aren’t? and your right those “college educated people” are probably working for the state living a mediocre live not expanding there minds past college…after you get a job at anyplace that will hire you because now you want to look like you have made something of yourself. But you have not made something of yourself. You have merely parents who are willing to go into debt to have UC DAVIS indoctrinate..I mean “educate” you. I see this comment offended you because you binge every now and then I take it. I’m sure with a last name like Griswold your great grandpapi was one of those trailer park “non college educated people”.

When a professor decides that he or she wants to make up a study, I mean start one they usually start with the outcome instead of looking at the data. You can get any answer you want when you want to look for somehting specific. It would be interesting to actually see the statitics on how this plays out. What deviation was used to score this study? What is disturbing is that this is being passed off as news.

I find it important to report this because the public needs to know of misguided “research”. Otherwise someone in the future will site it after the actual data is long gone and pretend that it is valid. We are forewarned and won’t be fooled .
Otherwise your post is quite valid and I would also like to see the raw data and protocol used.

ROFL.! And we’re supposed to believe a study coming out of UC Davis? About GUNS? Wow, Liberals really DO think we’re rubes, don’t they. I can just hear them in the faculty lounge…”Second Amendment, What Second Amendment?

[...] author of the study and director of the university’s Violence Prevention Research Program, told CBS 13 Sacramento. “This is of particular concern given that alcohol intoxication also impairs a gun user’s [...]