People Magazine False “Fact” in Shannon Watts Puff Piece for Gun Control

Ammoland ^ | 30 May, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

In a puff piece with much emotion and very little fact, the author of the People article, Michelle Tauber, promotes  public relations expert Shannon Watts as just a “stay at home mom” who saw something that needed doing.

The article in People.com has almost nothing of substance in it. It ignores the funding of the organization by anti-gun zealot Michael Bloomberg. It ignores the law. It ignores the Constitution. It ignores just about all facts involving firearms.

Here is one of the very few “facts” put forward in the puff piece:

As for the idea that reducing gun violence, which disproportionately affects Americans — the United States is home to 82% of gun deaths worldwide — is too difficult and complex to tackle, Watts says she “can’t fathom” the idea of giving up.

The number put forward, that the United States is home to 82% of “gun deaths” worldwide, is false, by any reasonable measure.

Counting all deaths which have any link to firearms in the United States, there were 39,000 “gun deaths” in the United States in 2016.  One source puts the worldwide total number of “gun deaths” at 251,000 for 2016. The United States has less than 16% of the total, not 82%.

“Gun deaths” is a propaganda term; an Orwellian way of linking all deaths that are related to guns, even though the causes are completely different and unrelated. Suicide mechanisms and causes are very different from homicide causes, which are quite different from accidents.

Restrictions on guns have had virtually no effect on suicides.

[marktwain]

People magazine pushing a propaganda puff piece.

[rktman]

Silly. We all “know” if it’s a push by the left, it’s all actual fact not to be argued against. ;-)

[IronJack]

People.com has almost nothing of substance in it.

[doorgunner69]

Airhead soccer moms are the only ones that read it. Vanity Fair appeals to homosexuals.

[rktman]

Guessing you saw that obxxx says we can buy machine guns on the we for next to nothing while lying, uh I mean speaking in Brazil. Of course that’s redundant with him. You know, speaking/lying. You say liar, I say lying SOS.

[Impala64ssa]

Gun control Barbie. I suppose no mention of one of her boyfriends, FMR Comg. Leeland Yee, who would've single handedly repealed the 2A if he had his way, who's now in federal prison for GUN RUNNING. We're known by the company we keep.

[OttawaFreeper]

They likely also won’t bother telling people that it would take American criminals (with a few Adam Lanzas added in) many hundreds of centuries to equal the number of civilians murdered by their own governments in just one after they were disarmed by gun control laws.

[seowulf]

Guessing you saw that obxxx says we can buy machine guns on the we for next to nothing while lying, uh I mean speaking in Brazil.

Although, I have never actually searched "machine gun" on Amazon.

I wonder if you can get next day if you're a Prime member.