worse then the EU? not if you take out urban murders... we'd be about par, but less per guns owned
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.”
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WAPO should come up with a whole new "pants on fire" meme for the congenital liar-in-chief.
Hey, 250 million children were killed in this country last year, so gun control is really needed.
I guess killing is ok if you use a dr instead of a gun?!?? (Sarcasm off)
He’s mastered the art of exaggerating note every speech.
Maybe 0bama will go to the U.N. and swing a deal to ban weapons in the USA.
Yup, and many more died because of Bush caused climate change.
If Obama couldn’t use communist-inspired lies, phony strawman arguments, and outrageously-false hyperbole, he would have to just shut up.
That would be fine with me...
Keep talking Obama, keep talking.
What?!?
The government grubering its people? Say it isn’t so.
Exagerating stats? Yeh like the US has the highest murder rates in the world. I think we are about 150th or something.
makes it appear? no--that is exactly what Obama is saying... and it is factually incorrect...
the article does not say how his exaggerating hurts the gun control effort...
This is not a right granted by any law or even the Constitution. It is a natural right of man merely recognized by the Constitution. And yes, it is a bit frightening for our so called elected servants when We the People, the sovereign citizens they supposedly serve, are as well armed as the military, but that is the whole point, isn't it?
Of course, self defense, defense of family and hunting -- in that order -- are natural rights, too, but the primary purpose of a well armed citizenry is to strike an ongoing undercurrent of fear into the hearts of our feral government servants.
But isn’t that obvious? Even the extreme left knows if they go over the top...or are too obvious to their true communistic nature and agenda, that people will start to wake up.
We’re worse than the European Union and other modern nations, but go to Mexico or Africa and the murder rates are way worse.
worse then the EU? not if you take out urban murders... we'd be about par, but less per guns owned
It’s even more specific than that: take out the inner city gangs and we would be at less than 1 per 100,000. Let’s be honest, the whole reason why cops visit the inner city is because gang members waste each other so much.
100%
In other words...he's lying, as usual. If his nose gets any longer, he's going to tip over. What a disgrace to America.
i believe by removing the top 5 cities in the US, ruled by dim libtards for the past 20 years and overrun with feral yutes, we do end up way down the list. don’t know the top 5 cities off the top of my head but my guess would be Detroit, Philly, Baltimore, DC, and Chicago
To the left the truth is racist.
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