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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Newton Carroll If you notice, 90% of mass murders are in gun free zones. Also, the majority obtained their guns illegally. Now, what to you say to those who have been saved by a gun. What do you say to those families who were killed by knives, arrows, rocks, bricks, bats, cars, etc? Why is it when someone usese a knife, the person with the knife is a murderer? However, when someone uses a gun, the gun is the killer? Why don’t you get this pissed when a car is used or a knife is used? How about when someone is beaten with a bat? What is it about a gun that makes libers and demers blame this inaminate object for the murder instead of the low life using it? Why are these same libers and demers ignoring the stories of how guns save lives? Can’t have one without the other.Either acknowledge the fact that guns also save lives or get off your “guns are evil” soap box.
Carol, they can’t give up on trying to remove guns because it is imperative they are taken to fulfill their agenda!!!
They’re dead wrong and stupidly stubborn about staying wrong. That’s beside the point. Pulling the teeth of the American people has nothing to do with crime rates or public safety, it has everything to do with making things easier and safer for the those who will, according to this regime’s agenda, carry out the conquest and subjugation of the American people.
$#%&!@*s like him buy there facts corrupt F**ks
Michael Michalak
that is why the Government staged everything an why the Police are now above the law
Screw Doomberg & Obama!
The only way ill give my guns up is if they are pryed from my cold dead rigormortis infested fingers. No question.
They’re idiots anyway
So the 4 shootings in the past 2 weeks says gun violence is down.