You mean to tell me the the Everytown group used skewed statistics for their argument? Oh my gawd they would never do that!
http://gunssavelives.net/blog/cnn-ca...-shooting-map/
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You mean to tell me the the Everytown group used skewed statistics for their argument? Oh my gawd they would never do that!
http://gunssavelives.net/blog/cnn-ca...-shooting-map/
Just like the 30,000 dead from guns each year figure which includes suicides.
Yep, and they say we're one of the worst... that's only because the Pakistani government doesn't track stats in the FATA region, they make Chicago and Detroit look like paradise!Quote:
Originally Posted by merl
But if they didn't have such easy access to guns, maybe they wouldn't have been so quick to end their lives by way of convenience.Quote:
Originally Posted by merl
/liberal ideology
This is my shocked face...
The numbers also include "children", aka gang-bangers through age 25.
Sent from my electronic leash.
I was tearing apart this list on Facebook the other night ...
out of 6 randomly selected "shootings" on the list only ONE was what anyone would call a "school shooting".
including the very first one on the list!
That statistic can be torn apart a lot further than that. I'll have to find the sound bite but one of the podcasts I listen to has the daily average torn down and the stuff we should care about is miniscule compared to the reported statistics.Quote:
Originally Posted by merl
Of course Never, OOPS
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/11/us/sch...iref=allsearch
CNN determined that 15 of the incidents Everytown included were situations similar to the violence in Newtown or Oregon -- a minor or adult actively shooting inside or near a school. That works out to about one such shooting every five weeks, a startling figure in its own right.
Some of the other incidents on Everytown's list included personal arguments, accidents and alleged gang activities and drug deals.