In 1950s & 1960s tobacco companies denied mainstream smoke (MSM) harms its users & even said MSM is good for one’s health. In 1964 the Surgeon General issued a report & people found out what tobacco companies had known for years: MSM kills about 1/3 of its users. 1/5

In 1964 approximately 42% of adult in USA smoked. Today that’s 18%. People avoid things that kill. People learned about cigs/cancer & many quit. Since mid-1990s NRA effectively has barred CDC from sponsoring peer reviewed studies of gun violence. This could be spoliation. 2/5

Under Indiana law that intentional destruction of evidence may establish an inference that the spoliated evidence was unfavorable to the party responsible. Gribben v Wal-Mart, 824 N.E.2d 349, 351 (Ind. 2005). If gun makers & the NRA are blocking studies they know will show 3/5

> people are harmed than are protected from harm by private ownership of guns, deception is the same as tobacco companies’ 60 yrs ago. We need peer-reviewed studies of gun violence so people can make an informed choice on whether to buy a gun. In public debate? 4/5

We should infer guns cause more harm than they prevent. I’m Mark Small: anti-gun, pro-choice, pro environment, pro-science, pro-separation of church & State GOP candidate for Indiana House Distr 86. I approve of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 5/5