About 70% of the guns CHECKED with the ATF come from the US.
They only check them if they suspect they came from the US.
The vast majority are not checked with the ATF because there is no reason to believe those guns came from the US.
Guns are much cheaper to get from other countries than from the US.
Anyone who refuses to recognize selection bias must think a lot of strange things.
I mean 30% of all children are unrelated to the person their mother says is the father - if you go by the reports of the labs who determine such things. (most people don’t check - those that do usually had suspicions.)
Someone in the industrialized world is three times more likely to get cancer! (many cancer deaths in the third world are never diagnosed as cancer.)
Etc, etc, etc.
Are people really this stupid? Or just a significant percentage? Is there a selection bias towards idiots with no understanding of math going into journalism?