Half Truth or Fake News? PBS, biased again.
Data is correct, but...
Picture of AR15s with title about gun deaths, when AR15s are responsible for a tiny fraction.
Death rate, not balanced by total homicides/deaths (knifes, blunt, etc).
Mass shooting note about the effect, but then note about how silly it is to respond by arming teachers.
Then the total gun deaths, not adjusted for population.
Unsupported/misleading statement that guns are a major health problem from a Harvard professor.
Seems like all the data is correct. How can this be fake news?
Picture of AR15s with title about gun deaths, when AR15s are responsible for a tiny fraction.
Death rate, not balanced by total homicides/deaths (knifes, blunt, etc).
Mass shooting note about the effect, but then note about how silly it is to respond by arming teachers.
Then the total gun deaths, not adjusted for population.
Unsupported/misleading statement that guns are a major health problem from a Harvard professor.
Seems like all the data is correct. How can this be fake news?
In fact, let the private corporation, the NRA teach them.
That plus a repeal of all existing gun laws because they all violate the 2nd amendment. ;^)
The problem is that going GALT has immediate downsides for ones own life, and requires giving up a lot of the creature comforts and benefits we still get from the capitalistic parts of our society. It is getting to me more and more, though.
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My answer has been, requiring firearm education in public schools. This would ignorance, accidents and irrational fear. I would support this.
The article gives an intentional mistaken impression. It fails to include any mention of the frequent use of guns in defense of life. The government purposely doesn’t even collect data on the number of times guns are used in self defense, often without a shot being fired, because they don’t want to know.
The article further doesn’t mention that when one type of weapon is difficult to obtain another is used. You are not going to prevent someone from committing suicide by restricting guns, they just use another method: jumping from a great height, knife, belt, shoelaces or a fist full of pills. You aren’t going to stop crime by making guns more difficult to get. England has horribly restrictive guns laws and is an island which makes it more difficult to get around the restrictions by bringing weapons into the country; this is the left’s frequent excuse for why gun laws don’t stop murders in Chicago and other leftist hellholes. There are still plenty of crimes using guns in England and when guns aren’t convenient they use knives, explosives and trucks to kill which is why PBS won’t show those statistics. Knife crimes are so bad in England they are discussing knife control. This is a further regressive policy by people who call themselves Progressives in Orwellian fashion. The Magna Carta, often considered an inspiration for our Constitutional rights and the first delineation of the rights of subjects recognized a right to be armed. Prior to this it was illegal, usually punishable by death, to own or carry a sword unless you were some lord’s knight. Soon they won’t even be allowed to carry a knife let a sword.
Facts make their head explode when they don't bear out their radical agenda..
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"These numbers come days after a gunman in Jacksonville, Florida, fatally shot two people and injured 11 more before he killed himself..."
Somehow the Jacksonville shooter caused the numbers? Or perhaps the numbers retroactively caused him?
Perhaps if we just string words togetherness gunslinger morphing salad undressing reporter easy paycheck cloud cuckoo.
1) firearm homicides in the United States are predominantly in Democrat-controlled major cities.
2) firearm homicides in the United States are predominantly in cities with extensive gun control laws on the books.
3) most firearm homicides in the United States are gang-related.
4) most firearm homicides are with a handgun - not a rifle
5) estimates are that there are 1-2 MILLION annual uses of defensive firearms to halt or prevent crime.
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