Posted on 09/07/2024 4:59:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) says there’s a concerted effort by the federal government and the legacy media to “debunk” the fact that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens prevent crime and stop mass shooters.
Massie was referring to an article by Dr. John R. Lott Jr. that makes the case that the FBI, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and legacy media outlets regularly suppress and hide data that proves that an armed citizenry is one of the most effective deterrents to a mass casualty attacks.
ongressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) says there’s a concerted effort by the federal government and the legacy media to “debunk” the fact that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens prevent crime and stop mass shooters.
Massie was referring to an article by Dr. John R. Lott Jr. that makes the case that the FBI, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and legacy media outlets regularly suppress and hide data that proves that an armed citizenry is one of the most effective deterrents to a mass casualty attacks.
In his article, Dr. Lott cites examples of how legacy media plays up the idea that “good guys with guns keep failing to stop mass shootings.”
Meanwhile, the CDC has removed its estimates of defensive gun uses from its website after a 2013 report from the National Academies of Sciences showed that citizens use guns to stop crime anywhere from 64,000 to 3 million times a year. That data was removed after the CDC was lobbied by a gun control organization to remove it because it was being cited by “gun rights folks” to stop gun control legislation.
Lott also calls into question how the FBI defines an active shooter attack so loosely as to include any shooting in a public place whether a single person was shot at and missed or a number of people were shot and killed. The Texas University researchers that the FBI hired to compile its list, depended on Google searches of news stories for their data.
Lott says that means they were relying on a dataset that was actively predisposed to report in a way that was hostile to guns in the hands of private citizens.
As a result, of the 350 active shooter cases between 2014 to 2023, the FBI reported that only 14 of those shooters were stopped by armed citizens.
Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center found that of 515 active shooter incidents between 2014 to 2023, armed citizens stopped 180, and that’s excluding 27 cases in which an armed citizen stopped a shooter before he could fire a shot.
As the election draws nearer, the gun control rhetoric is already intensifying.
Rep. Massie has a reminder for the next president of what the Second Amendment is really about.
Will the government go after the MSM for their misinformation?
Gonna share this with N.C. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson. He’s running for governor.
Disinformation or misinformation? Dis is deliberate.
The government is doing this deliberately.
Both of these bureaucratic entities need to be defunded, dismantled, and do replace.
It is not just mass murder where self defense gets spiked, it is ordinary self defense.
Because of the Internet, we do not have to rely on AP or UPI to learn of self defense beyond our local news.
Good point.
Yesterday I noticed that GAB has been deleting my Self Defense postings.
https://gab.com/groups/37858
I wonder why?
BTT
Both words are effectively synonyms. They translate as "lying government officials and journalists".
Misinformation is false, misleading, or out-of-context content shared without an intent to deceive.
Disinformation is purposefully false or misleading content shared with an intent to deceive and cause harm.
I am aware of the dictionary definition that indicates the two words should have slightly different meanings. It is exactly as you say.
I am also aware that liars, when called out on their lies, will often claim they had no intention to deceive anybody. They downgrade their disinformation to "misinformation" to deflect blame.
Worse yet, liars will claim that anything contradicting their intentional deceptions is "misinformation".
I don't have a good answer for the ongoing corruption of the language. Perhaps I am even contributing to it. When I hear back-and-forth charges of "disinformation" and "misinformation", all I really perceive is "lies". And I often have a hard time assessing who is lying. The deceivers are very skillful.
SUre sounds like a deliberate case of Falsifying Records for compensation or gain, and of course CRIMINAL FRAUD against their PAID advertisers...
Thank you for posting this story. I have been recording the stories I see posted on freerepublic about the use of a gun for self-defense for one year now. The number is now 14, and I am sure it only represents a fraction of the total. My plan is to eventually check my list against the FBI List to see if the FBI has omitted anything that I know should be there.
Sounds like a good plan. Please post your results.
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