Posted on 01/05/2016 2:27:22 PM PST by Mozilla
President Obama‘s press secretary cited “30,000 gun deaths in America†as the reason his boss should end-run Congress to implement new gun controls–but he omitted a key fact.
Press Secretary Josh Earnest answered a reporter’s question if there was any opposition to the president’s plan to take executive action to close a so-called “gun show loophole†while making private gun sales more difficult for citizens. Looking down at his talking points, he started reeling off statistics about gun deaths, police shot, and other violent crimes committed with guns.
But he missed the part where 20,000 of those gun deaths were by suicide, according to Washington D.C. reporter Emily Miller of FOX5 News and author of “Emily Gets Her Gun.â€
In the face of such alarming statistics, why hasn't Congress acted to #StopGunViolence? https://t.co/GPx0BsueIN
— Josh Earnest (@PressSec) January 4, 2016
Note White House spokesman always cites "30,000 gun deaths" a year but doesn't say that includes 20,000 suicide. https://t.co/0q1zBxaHkY
— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) January 4, 2016 White House says 30,000 annual "gun deaths." FACT: FBI says 8,124 homicides by gun. CDC cites 21,175 suicide by gun.
— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) January 4, 2016 It’s not hard to take down the White House’s talking points when you actually know what you’re talking about.
@EmilyMiller @mblapeer White House: "Facts? We don't need no stinkin facts!"
— Ben Aksar (@BenAksar) January 4, 2016 Someone has a better fact checker the someone else's speech writers. Hint: @emilymiller
— Ed Gettins (@EdGettins) January 4, 2016 Other Twitter users chime in citing Centers for Disease Control numbers.
@EmilyMiller @PressSec pic.twitter.com/FoCUDCaDbU
— Jesse Sweeney (@JesseASweeney) January 4, 2016 Miller also challenged Earnest to tell her how many crimes a year are done by guns bought at gun shows.
#QsforJoshEarnest – How many crimes a year are done by guns bought at gun shows? https://t.co/0q1zBxaHkY
— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) January 4, 2016 To be accurate, the answer is zero, because guns don’t commit crimes, people do. A better question might be how many criminals buy firearms at gun shows, surrounded by law-abiding citizens and police officers? Or how many criminals follow background check laws?
@EmilyMiller @ancerrone @PressSec We just need more laws! Criminals & terrorists always obey the law.
— ✯✯Gene McVay✯✯ (@GeneMcVay) January 5, 2016
If you took the gun away from suiciders, they’d jump in front of an electric car or jump off a wind-power windmill. Ban those too. What complete fools. Were nobama’s tears today for the innocent children he murders with his drones in the Middle East?
I’ve known about a dozen people who have tried or succeeded in offing themselves. Only one to use a gun only managed to blow half his face off with a 20 gauge.
Garages and pills were the popular choices
Sometimes when people cry it is for other reasons, not always the subject at hand. This guy has been on a long vacation. Maybe he is starting to realize just how many people in the world have died because of his bad decisions.
The liar-in-chief just doing what comes natural to a sexual degenerate lying fascist *hole.
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20,000 per year people kill themselves with guns???
Suicide is a rare occurrence- usually you hear about it on the news.
Is this figure accurate?
Obama doesn’t look very stable in the picture.
He looks like he was triggered by something that is really bothering him deep inside.
or they might jump off a building, taking out someone on the sidewalk below!
I think I heard obozo specify the number of people yesterday who commit suicide using - GASP - GUNS...and I couldn’t help but wonder why he thinks it’s his job to even be concerned about it. We HIRED him (BIG MISTAKE) to keep this COUNTRY safe and he can’t get that done so he wanders down another rabbit trail? Why not? Distract and obfuscate works for dems every time.
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Obama wants a socialist nation. Just like Cuba and France.
I know 2 people who tried to kill themselves with guns. They only succeeded in horribly mutilating themselves, but they’re both still alive.
I know 2 people who tried to kill themselves with guns. They only succeeded in horribly mutilating themselves, but they’re both still alive.
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I disagree ... I think 0bama wants an islamofascist nation. Just like Iran.
“FBI says 8,124 homicides by gun”
Well hey - next year we should at least see it down to 8,123 with all of these excecutive orders.
(”If we can save just one child’s life...”)
Total Suicide 41,149
Number 2 cause of death for ages 15-34.
http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_2013-a.pdf
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Males take their own lives at nearly four times the rate
of females and represent 77.9% of all suicides.
Females are more likely than males to have suicidal
thoughts.
Suicide is the seventh leading cause of death for males and the fourteenth leading cause for females.
Firearms are the most commonly used method of
suicide among males (56.9%).
Poisoning is the most common method of suicide for
females (34.8%).
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/suicide-datasheet-a.pdf
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