Posted on 03/15/2015 8:07:29 AM PDT by PROCON
On March 12, The Washington Post (WAPO) reacted to the failed AR-15 ammo ban, which was one more gun control loss in a string of many others, by suggesting that President Obama is hurting the gun control movement with his hyperbole on gun crime statistics and America’s place in the world among gun-owning countries.
The the Post piece centers on comments Obama made to Benedict College in South Carolina on March 6–comments which epitomize his hyperbolic statements on guns.
WAPO seized on three specific statements from the that speech to show how Obama hurt the gun control lobby.
In the first of these three, Obama said: “What we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countries. I mean by like a mile.” This statement makes it appear like Obama was saying “the United States [has] the highest homicide rate among the industrialized world.” And the Washington Post says that claim is “factually incorrect.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Remove black crime from the US statistics and the US has similar crime rates to Belgium.
Shocked that the WAPO is knocking Obama down. Did we slip some pro-gun moles into that outfit? :)
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