Fans of gun control (read: citizen control) are all smiles until they’re confronted with hard facts. The truth is nothing like what they preach:
Earlier this week, Michael Bloomberg’s new anti-gun Everytown released a bogus report claiming since Newtown in December 2013, 74 school shootings have taken place. The report was so bogus, even CNN went out of the way, twice, to correct the record. More from Ed Morrissey:For the second time in two days, CNN went out of its way to debunk the Michael Bloomberg/Barack Obama claim that mass shootings have become epidemic and a “new normal” in American society. The day after CNN debunked the Bloomberg-funded Everytown claim that there were 74 Newtown-style mass shootings since Sandy Hook, Jake Tapper interviewed Northeastern University criminology professor James Alan Fox to look at the data rather than the anecdotes. Over a 40-year period, Fox concluded, mass shootings have remained flat — even while the population of the country has grown significantly over the same period.
Since we’re on the topic of “gun violence,” it’s never a bad time for a reality check. The fact is, as lawful gun sales have increased, crimes carried out with a firearm have decreased. A majority of people think violent crimes carried out with firearms have increased over the past 20 years. They haven’t, but instead have been cut in half.
Source: Townhall
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NEVER ALLOW TO DISARM YOUR COUNTRY, NEVER, BE DISARMED IS THE FIRST STEP TO BECOME A COMUNIST PLACE, NEVER ALLOW TO CHANGE THE SECOND AMENDMENT.
What?
School shootings can be traced back to abusive homes, parents doing drugs, sexual abuse in foster homes, our societies complete lack of values and culture….just the mere existance of guns does not cause school shootings.
A Jackwagon with a peashooter pic has all the answers. Riiiiiight…
I LIVE IN BRAZIL, WHEN THE POLITICIANS APROVED TO DISARM POPULATION, WE HAD AROUND 5,000 DEATH PER YEAR, TODAY AFTER THEY HAD DISARMED POPULATION, WE HAVE AROUN 57,000 DEATHS PER YEAR. DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS??? REALLY???
and whoever said that “only cops should have guns” should get their head out their ass. Cops murder people on a regular basis. Cops should be limited to 10 round clips because they cannot control their trigger fingers.
“on a regular basis”? None of the ones I know have ever?
If that societies complete lack of values is the cause, there would have been as many incidents in the UK, or in Canada, etc.
Nothing new here.
and for someone to say “theyre not trying to get your guns” bull $#%&!@*ing $#%&!@*…pull your head out of the sand and look around. Does operation chokepoint ring a bell? I shouldnt even start listing the onslaught of bills and laws that encroach on our 2nd amendment to the point that I cannot peacefully carry a gun for my protection. I would be brandishing a firearm or carrying a concealed weapon. So now when I get attacked I have to defend with my fists or hope a cop with a gun is near and cares to help.
What you gonna do the next time you’re drunk and someone pokes you? Pull out your piece, and “stand your ground” like a coward?
Crimnals are not all that stupid, They will think twice before entering any place that is protected with its own weapons.
Criminals are probably smarter than most of the ammosexuals.
Yea but you can bet they have guns protecting them
hes a lying democrat traitor
Which makes you a lying teabilly scumbag slime sucking conservaturd?