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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There isn’t a “gun” problem in the U.S., just s a gang problem. And every one knows how gang obey the law!
When good guys with guns out number bad guys with guns everything will be ok.
Personally I don’t have a problem with guns or gun ownership. What I ABSOLUTELY DO have a problem with is how synically the NRA has turned simple gun ownership into a bona fide Religion!!!! They have succeeded so well that millions of people actually worship at the high alter of weapons.
Wake up folks!!! The NRA is just the political voice for the gun lobby. And what is the gun lobby interested in? One thing and one thing only…selling more guns!!!
When gun sales lag the NRA knows that all they have to do is utter two simple words “gun control” and immediately hundreds of thousands of normally reasonable and good people will go into panic mode and run out to do what?…..wait for it…wait for it… to go out and buy still MORE guns!!
They are playing y’all like a violin.
I agree with you 100% Donnie
Never, never, never give up your weopon. period.
Barfbama is going to try an executive order to try to take peoples guns, but if he doesn’t have to obey the law, why should anyone else.
supply to us
How bout idiot control
AMEN. I LEFT MY GUN AT HOME AND IT DIDNT SHOT ANY ONE. WOW
It’s been my experience with life in reality !! Sink or swim , Out of sight and out of mind doesn’t make a bad person harmless .
Facts never impress the Liberals.