Posted on 12/15/2018 6:01:16 PM PST by rogerantone1
Dozens of news outlets reported that America has the most mass shooters in the world. Many say that shows America needs more gun control.
CNN claimed that “the U.S. has the most mass shootings”. The WSJ reported that “U.S. leads the world in mass shootings.” Nearly every major media outlet, and Former President Obama, said the same.
But the claim is based on just one study, and the author of that study, Adam Lankford, would not release his data to either John Stossel or researchers in the field.
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Short, good video with John Lott. Thanks for posting.
Interesting chart at the end of the article.
John Lott does good work.
Reminds me of this:
Fraud in Michael Bellesiles’s Arming America
https://www.claytoncramer.com/unpublished/ArmingAmericaFraud.pdf
Bookmark.
If Lott’s group found 3000 while Langford found only 192, it tells me Langford’s “research” was junior high quality.
There was an earlier report that proved these claims were fake news . It cited world wide mass shootings in; Russia, Asia and Africa which did make the talk show circuit. Most of it perpetrated by Muslems.
I am positive that those people in the media are revealing how pathetic their journalism degrees are as a credible scholarship. If they were into auto mechanics, the wheels would fall off and the doors would fly off the hinges. As a matter of fact, these yahoos should have stuck to auto mechanics at the vocational schools.
Auto mechanic? Is that supposed to be an insult?
Most of these asswads couldn’t be taught how to change a tire.
I am suggesting these journalists would have done much better if they went to vocational school where they would have at least learned something.
Refusing to share his data just screams that the research is questionable, at best. It’s not as if there is some proprietary information that must be kept confidential.
He knows darned well that his research won’t stand up to scrutiny.
The only vocation these so called journalists could even possibly be considered for would be picking up sh!t off the streets of San Francisco.
Even then you would have to nail the instructions onto their foreheads, in words of less than two syllables.
If I were ever told that a “journalist” had been retrained to work on my truck, I would shoot the “journalist”, then scrap the truck.
Most people with half a brain would be skeptical of the claims, but then we all know that today's journalists are not blessed with a brain that is capable of critical thinking abilities. That is true regardless of the "media" outlet source. There are a few decent journalists, but they are very few in numbers in the entire world today. Thus freedom of the press is worthless anymore, because propaganda rules, not the facts.
Well put! Journalist today are only fit for picking up San Francisco’s homeless potty off the streets and sidewalks. The problem I have is, how do you scrape the journalists off the bottom of your shoe?
What the fake news lacks:
“What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.”
Joseph Pulitzer
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TY for putting this up. I didn’t know he had moved to YouTube. Ive always really liked his work but haven’t had a chance to watch in years. Every time I would try and record his show some other garbage, random different shows, would record. Hmmm...where did I set that tinfoil?
Although America is not number one in mass shooters we are number one in stupid, biased liberal reporters.
Bump for reference
School shooting reports are inflated to include very “we think that burrito is a gun” and “there’s a loud bang, we think there’s a shooting”.
The School Shootings That Weren’t
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent
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