Posted on 06/24/2015 3:55:34 AM PDT by richardb72
In the wake of the murders in Charleston, President Obama has made more exaggerations and false claims about gun violence in America. He made two public addresses this past week — one to the nation on Thursday and one to the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Friday. On both occasions, he gave distorted impressions of how rates of violence in America compare with those in the rest of the world.
In his address to the nation, Obama claimed that, “We as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.”
But Obama overlooks Norway, where Anders Behring Breivik used a gun to kill 67 people and wound 110 others. Still others were killed by bombs that Breivik detonated. Three of the six worst K-12 school shootings ever have occurred in Europe. Germany saw two of these — one in 2002 at Erfurt and another in 2009 at Winnenden. The combined death toll was 34. France and Belgium have both faced multiple terrorist attacks over the past year.
After adjusting for America’s much larger population, we see that many European countries actually have higher rates of death in mass public shootings.
Let’s look at such mass public shootings (four or more people killed, and not in the course of committing another crime) from 2009 to the present. To make a fair comparison with American shootings, I have excluded terrorist attacks that might be better classified as struggles over sovereignty, such as the 22 people killed in the Macedonian town of Kumanovo last month.
Norway had the highest annual death rate . . .
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Obama lied?
Cue Claude Raines
bttt
John Lott is the king of dissecting gun issues down to straight numbers, and the leftists hate him; because they can’t argue the facts.
Obama is the king of liars. He’s a demigod of deception. He’s the embodiment of the Muslim tenet of taqqiyah, and if you believe anything that issues forth from his forked tongue, then you are as lost as any other leftist.
They’re rolling us into a situation where gun owners will have to choose: be forcibly disarmed or die protecting a right that no one can take away from you.
bfl
WOW - 0bama is a liar. Tell me it isn’t so.
Guns are not the problem. Nutbars on psych-meds are the problem.
I think he overestimates 'die-hard gun control advocates'. When you point out hypocrisy (or even facts) to a liberal, all you have done is waste your time...
“false claims”
Oh, for goodness’ sake, say it for what it is: Obama lied his *ss off.
Again.
If/when he tells the truth about anything, THEN it’ll be news.
That doesn't happen by accident. The education system in the US has undertaken the "neutering" of young American boys by forcing Ritalin on boisterous male students. (an amphetamine stimulant which is routinely prescribed to control hyperactive children, which more often than not are boys). In this context, control is more like "lobotomize". The long term effects of Ritalin described above as "Nutbars" are linked to outbursts of explosive violence. Most school shooters have a history of psychoactive medication exposure.
The Pharmaceutical Industry works very hard to keep a lid on the correlation between their drugs and explosive behavior.
Regards,
GtG
“We as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”
And also we ,he, don’t pay ransom unless it is with Gitmo currency thus promoting mass violence.
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