Posted on 08/31/2024 1:31:53 PM PDT by CFW
Through a collaboration between the Transparency Foundation and Not Me California, a study was conducted that the groups claim debunks an anti-gun group’s assertions. The report based on their research is called “California’s Gun Control Data Deception: California Politicians and Gun Control Activists Misrepresent Data to Promote a False Narrative to Falsely Claim Gun Control Laws Are Working.”
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Also in their announcement they lay out some of the contents of the report:
Deception 1: Faulty Definition of Gun Crime: Giffords inflates gun violence by 58% by including suicides in their data sets versus just analyzing gun-related violent crimes.
Deception 2: Ignoring Data on How Guns Save Lives: Giffords excludes any data relating to instances where a firearm saved lives during a crime
Deception 3: Cherry-Picked Data and Misleading Comparisons: Giffords excluded a jurisdiction with strict gun control and simultaneously high levels of violent crime (Washington, DC) that would have refuted its Scorecard’s conclusions. Giffords rankings also completely ignore that violent crime is rising in California – the state they tout as such a gun control success.
Deception 4: Falsely Claiming Gun Control Laws Reduce Violence: Giffords makes this sweeping conclusion event though its own data shows otherwise. In fact, some states with poor Giffords gun law rankings—such as South Dakota or New Hampshire—have lower crime rates than A-ranked California or A- ranked Illinois.
Deception 5: Ignoring the Rise of Guns to Protect Politicians and Within Government Agencies: Giffords focuses on the enactment of gun control measures which reduce the ability of everyday Americans to protect themselves, but remains completely silent on the use of firearms to protect some of their movement’s biggest donors like Michael Bloomberg as well as politicians like Gavin Newsom who support gun control.
(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...
One thing I've noticed they do is change the definition of "children" to include those up to 19 years of age when citing the number of children killed by firearms. Many of those are gang-bangers who were killed when committing a crime or were killed by a competing gang.
The Left lies. If they didn’t have lies, they would have nothing.
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