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General Category => National/Breaking News => Second Amendment => Topic started by: txradioguy on October 14, 2019, 11:51:03 pm

Title: Muddying The Waters On Firearms Research
Post by: txradioguy on October 14, 2019, 11:51:03 pm

What happens when a virulent anti-gun activist gets ahold of a journal’s entire October issue? We get headlines like: Study: U.S. Gun Deaths Surge, Except for Two States With Restrictive Gun Laws, just days after headlines such as: Homicides, other violent crime fell again in 2018, new FBI data shows and FBI: Southern States See Largest Drop in Violent Crime.

What’s the real story here? Did researchers unearth better crime data than the FBI?

Turns out that it doesn’t take much to see how the study’s authors manage to make the news. They simply included suicides in with homicide data.

Suicides are tragically rising nationwide over recent years. However, homicides have been on the decline. Since suicides are two-thirds of all firearm-related deaths in a given year, combining the two shows a net increase.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/14/muddying-the-waters-on-firearms-research/

Title: Re: Muddying The Waters On Firearms Research
Post by: verga on October 15, 2019, 03:27:16 pm

Just making stuff up as they go along.

Title: Re: Muddying The Waters On Firearms Research
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 15, 2019, 03:41:22 pm

Quote from: verga on October 15, 2019, 03:27:16 pm

Just making stuff up as they go along.

Fudging the data all along the way.

Title: Re: Muddying The Waters On Firearms Research
Post by: txradioguy on October 15, 2019, 04:48:30 pm

Quote from: verga on October 15, 2019, 03:27:16 pm

Just making stuff up as they go along.

Means to an end.  That's par for the course with Progressives.