Posted on 06/30/2017 1:35:54 AM PDT by marktwain
Lavaunti Broadbent was shot and killed during a crime spree in Minneapolis in July of 2015. He is one of the statistics from that year. He was 16 years old. He was attempting an armed robbery when a person with a carry permit shot and killed him.
Most children shot and killed in the United States are in their teens. Children killed in self defense by the citizens they are assaulting, are not separated from the statistics, unless they are killed by police.
The BBC recently ran a story about children and guns. In the first sentence, they say that about 1,300 children under the age of 17 die from gun-related injuries each year. That is not true.
About 1,300 US children under the age of 17 die from gun-related injuries per year, a government study has found.
Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found that guns seriously wounded about 5,800 children each year.
Boys accounted for 82% of all child firearm deaths while black children were 10 times more likely to be killed by a gun, according to the study.
More than half of these deaths were homicides while 38 percent were ruled suicide.
The study, published in Pediatrics on Monday, also found 6 percent of firearm-related deaths were fatalities from accidental gun injuries.
Just a few paragraphs down, a quote from Katherine Fowler, the leader of the study, contradicts the BBC's opening sentence.
“Firearm injuries are a leading cause of death among US children aged one to 17 years and contribute substantially each year to premature death, illness and disability of children,” said CDC's Katherine Fowler, who led the study.
Fowler's study includes 17-year-olds.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
This is what “science” is these days. Massage the data until it says what you want. If that don’t work invent new data.
one of the reasons western civilization is being flooded with third worlders is because crime stats and gun crimes can be hyped endlessly and the push for gun control and seizure pushed. The elite, and Satan, don’t want us to have guns because the elite don’t want to end up hanging from piano wire.
“This is what “science” is these days. Massage the data until it says what you want. If that don’t work invent new data.”
Ah, the Seattle gambit.
>>This is what “science” is these days. Massage the data until it says what you want. If that don’t work invent new data.
It isn’t science. It is a “study” and they’ve always worked like this. The difference between then and now is what the researcher does when the data rejects th null hypothesis. An honest person writes his article on how the data rejected the null hypothesis or they change it. A dishonest one changes the data by changing the includes/excludes until the null hypothesis is not rejected. But they include all this in the text of the actual article.
The real dishonesty comes when a “journalist” writes the article about the article and cherry picks the information in the research article to fit an agenda.
How many of those are sons of obama? How many from the failing state of Illinois?
And to think that Brits are made to pay a boob tube tax for this excrement.
Note to the Brits: Y’all need to have yourselves a T(V)-party.
I thought we fought a war against these limey aholes in the 18th century so we could keep our guns?
“...young criminals shot by other young criminals...”
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When I lived in California years ago, the LAPD called this type of crime an “NHI.”
NHI = No Human Involved.
We did. So now they’re attacking us a different way. With allies like the British government, who needs enemies.
In like, you know, climate change/global warming.
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