Liberal Lies About Guns
Feb 4, 2020 19:07:49 #
For the life of me, I cannot understand why liberals constantly lie about guns when it s so easy to prove them wrong......
From Govenor Huckabee:
By the way, speaking of lying, Bloomberg paid a reported $11 million for a Super Bowl commercial focused on pushing gun control that wildly misrepresented the facts (some might call that “lying.”) Jacob Sullum at Reason.com breaks it down…
https://reason.com/2020/02/02/michael-bloombergs-claim-about-children-killed-by-gun-violence-is-off-by-73/
In short, the ad claims that 2900 children die from gun violence every year in America. It doesn’t say that by “children,” Bloomberg means anyone up to age 19, which includes a lot of gang members who shot each other or were shot by police. The “child” that the ad centers around was actually 20 when he was killed, in a “gang-related” altercation in a Houston park. If you lower the cut-off age for “children” just two years to 17, the number of fatalities drops by about half. Factor out teen suicides, and it drops by 73%.
The ad’s call for background checks for all gun purchases and making “straw purchases” a federal crime are about laws that are already on the books. And the implication that we’re facing a rising epidemic of gun violence isn’t true, either. According to Pew Research, there were 4.6 gun murders per 100,000 Americans in 2017, down from 7.1 in 1974. There were also 7.3 crimes using guns per 1,000 people in 1993, plummeting to 1.1 per 1,000 in 2015.
The death of any young person is a terrible tragedy, but it appears obvious that it would be more effective to take action to counter teen suicide and gang activity than to impose more expensive, government-bloating gun control laws that infringe on the rights of law-abiding citizens and that have never been proven to make any difference whenever they have been tried.
https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=9C8D3A6F-D9B2-4E52-B11B-0F50A80946C4&s=3IVV
From Govenor Huckabee:
By the way, speaking of lying, Bloomberg paid a reported $11 million for a Super Bowl commercial focused on pushing gun control that wildly misrepresented the facts (some might call that “lying.”) Jacob Sullum at Reason.com breaks it down…
https://reason.com/2020/02/02/michael-bloombergs-claim-about-children-killed-by-gun-violence-is-off-by-73/
In short, the ad claims that 2900 children die from gun violence every year in America. It doesn’t say that by “children,” Bloomberg means anyone up to age 19, which includes a lot of gang members who shot each other or were shot by police. The “child” that the ad centers around was actually 20 when he was killed, in a “gang-related” altercation in a Houston park. If you lower the cut-off age for “children” just two years to 17, the number of fatalities drops by about half. Factor out teen suicides, and it drops by 73%.
The ad’s call for background checks for all gun purchases and making “straw purchases” a federal crime are about laws that are already on the books. And the implication that we’re facing a rising epidemic of gun violence isn’t true, either. According to Pew Research, there were 4.6 gun murders per 100,000 Americans in 2017, down from 7.1 in 1974. There were also 7.3 crimes using guns per 1,000 people in 1993, plummeting to 1.1 per 1,000 in 2015.
The death of any young person is a terrible tragedy, but it appears obvious that it would be more effective to take action to counter teen suicide and gang activity than to impose more expensive, government-bloating gun control laws that infringe on the rights of law-abiding citizens and that have never been proven to make any difference whenever they have been tried.
https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=9C8D3A6F-D9B2-4E52-B11B-0F50A80946C4&s=3IVV
Feb 4, 2020 19:33:50 #
calling it gun control is a lie. the stats don't support it.....you can bet they will never call it what it is...... lib-prog incremental gun seizure.....thousands of gun laws will not do as much as eliminating gun free zones. the wild wild west wasn't wild because everyone was packing..... the second amendment, forcing liberals and criminals to behave for over 200 years
Feb 5, 2020 15:04:20 #
Second Amendment's first words: A 'well regulated' militia being
necessary ......." where is that a liberal concept?
necessary ......." where is that a liberal concept?
Feb 5, 2020 15:05:54 #
MalG wrote:
Second Amendment's first words: A 'well regulated' militia being
necessary ......." where is that a liberal concept?
necessary ......." where is that a liberal concept?
Not sure what your question is....but the phrasehas been defined many times. What exactly do you want to know?
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