Posted on 02/15/2015 9:40:51 PM PST by smokingfrog
The editorial board of the New York Times has shredded the last vestiges of their remaining credibility today as they uncritically parroted the findings of a faked gun violence “study” created by inebriated rhesus monkeys and/or Violence Policy Center (VPC) interns.
The report, “Concealed Carry Killers” is a recurrent propaganda report created by the Violence Policy Center, a small left-wing gun prohibitionist organization dedicated to undermining the basic human right to armed self-defense. The goal of the VPC is to turn Benjamin Franklin’s warning on its head, and trade essential liberty for the illusion of temporary security.
“Concealed Carry Killers” is an on-going Quixotic quest to give the public the impression that people who carry concealed firearms are a threat to society.
This is of course a tall order, as the 11+ million people who carry licensed concealed weapons in the United States have been vetted by their local, state, and national governments with deep background checks. While individual state qualifications vary, the general criteria is that concealed carriers may not have any felony convictions, nor many disqualifying misdemeanors. Concealed carriers are far more law-abiding than the average citizen, and many concealed carriers are better trained with firearms than local law enforcement officers, and are convicted of fewer violent crimes as well.
In order to demonize the practice of concealed carry, the Violence Police Center ran into the insurmountable hurdle of not being able to find a significant number of concealed carriers using their legally concealed weapons to commit violent crimes.
In order to pad their report, VPC was forced to: include incidents where concealed carry was in no way part of the alleged crime. include incidents where there wasn’t even a conviction, but just allegations of a crime. include unsubstantiated, apparently mythical “crimes” without a named victim or perpetrator.
(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...
Appearing on Lars Larson’s radio show on Thursday, February 12th from 6:21 to 6:30 PM, John Lott explained the reason that the VPC’s claims were false.
Falls??
The NYT was probably the ghost writer of the “report “.
Why wouldn’t the NYT fall for the VPC “Gun Violence” Report. They’re in bed together. Joined as it were like Siamese twins.
Very good explanation by John Lott on how this report fabricates its “findings”.
They didn’t fall for the VPC report, they dove for it.
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