Posted on 12/21/2017 6:19:29 AM PST by marktwain
A recent study from Wellesley College economists, published in Science magazine is a good example of how to torture data until you get the result you want.
The mass murder at Sandy Hook took place on December 14, 2012. President Obama spoke of the need for more gun control on 19 December. He talked about specific restrictions on 16 January, 2013.
The events are so close to the end of the year, that an increase in accidental deaths should show in the annual data.
The article in Science makes the following claim.
About 60 additional unintended shooting deaths, roughly 20 of them in children, occurred in the 5 months after the shooting, conclude the study’s authors, economists Phillip Levine and Robin McKnight of Wellesley College in Massachusetts. For all of the 2012 calendar year, there were 545 accidental shooting deaths, or about 45 per month, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So a 60-death bump in a 5-month period is a considerable one.
Look at the actual numbers as shown by the CDC. 2011 had 591 deaths from firearm accidents, a rate of .19 per 100,000.
2012 had 548 deaths from firearm accidents, significantly lower than 2011. The rate was .17 per 100,000. Sandy Hook happened at the very end of 2012.
According to Science, an increase of about 60 accidental firearms then occurred. Those 60 did not occur in 2012, because 2012 had 43 fewer accidental firearm fatalities than in 2011.
In 2013, the number of fatalities from firearm accidents was 505. That is 43 deaths fewer than the number in 2012. Where are the supposed “60 additional” fatalities that happened? They do not exist. It is a made up number based on extremely short
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The only thing that matters is The Narrative. It’s all The Big Lie. Democrats just say stuff.
I would question the term unintentional.
I would even go use as a good example....the Huntsville Professor Amy Bishop episode, where it’s now obvious that she did intentionally shoot/kill three folks and wounded three additional folks in 2010....you have her original episode back in 1986 where her mother suggested she accidentally (unintentionally) shot her brother with a shotgun.
This statistics gimmick really doesn’t do the topic any fairness and is just a wasted bit of effort to define something fake.
On October 16, 2017, Breitbart News reported that the FBI Uniform Crime Report shows that more than four times as many people were stabbed to death in 2016 than were killed with rifles of any kind.
“Surge” of Accidental Targeted Gun Deaths After Pearl Harbor
Lying, gun-grabbing Sandy hookers at Wellesley College spewing their fudged data.
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