Tuesday, February 28, 2012
"Liberals Claim New York Gun Laws Lead to Lower Violent Crime..."
The anti-gun folks are loud, clever, AND selective...
The Armed Self Defense blog describes how some statistics are publicised, while others are not:
"The article quoted as an example: 408.1 violent crimes and 6.4 murders/manslaughters in Arizona per 100,000 population compared to 392.1 and 4.5 in New York.
It’s a favorite tactic of almost every anti firearms rights groups to cherry pick statistical numbers and use them to try to give themselves a position of strength in calling for restrictive gun laws.
Well, let’s take a few statistics from the same 2010 FBI Violent Crime Statistics report that they quoted from and put the numbers in actual context compared with states with lower crime rates.
We believe that they must have accidentally 'Overlooked' these statistics from the same report."
