More lying sacks of shit...

[Seth]

Authors of FBI Study Backtrack: Mass Shootings Are Not Increasing
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AP Photo/David Goldman
AP Photo/David Goldman

by AWR Hawkins11 Jun 20150
Last week, the two authors of a study the FBI released on September 24, 2014, admitted they “got it wrong” when they “reported mass shootings were on the rise” in America.

Outlets like The New York Times and the Associated Press had seized on the study by Texas State University’s J. Pete Blair and M. Hunter Martaindale as proof that more gun control was needed, while outlets like Breitbart News saw a political agenda behind the report, based on the flimsy criteria used in discerning what was or was not a mass shooting for the purposes of the study.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has now reported that the study was wrong. For example, the study claimed a “16%” increase in mass shootings from 2000 to 2013. The report’s synopsis showed that “during the first 7 years included in the study, an average of 6.4 incidents occurred annually. In the last 7 years of the study, that average increased to 16.4 incidents annually.”

Blair and Martaindale even used the faulty findings to predict that mass shootings were going to continue increasing in frequency by stating that “the findings establish an increasing frequency of incidents.”

This study fed the fire Democrats wanted to build for gun control. And because it was released less than two months before the mid-term elections, it gave gun control candidates something with which they could beat pro-Second Amendment candidates over the head, something gun control candidates could quote on the campaign trail before pro-Second Amendment candidates had time to research and find the study’s inconsistencies.

Then came last week, and Blair and Martaindale gave up the inconsistencies on their own by admitting the study’s “data is imperfect.”

Moreover, they essentially admitted to creating data in the absence of extant data which supported their thesis. Blair and Martaindale said, “Because official data did not contain the information we needed, we had to develop our own.”

WSJ points out the irony of it all inasmuch as the truth is completely opposite what the study presented. The occurrences of mass shootings have remained essentially flat for 40 years, and violent crime fell significantly during the period Blair and Martindale studied.

[Tero]

From December 2000 to 2013, 1,043 people in the United States were wounded or killed by “active shooters” attempting to kill people “in a confined and populated area.”

How are you going to change those numbers?

[Brian Peacock]

[Seth]

From December 2000 to 2013, 1,043 people in the United States were wounded or killed by “active shooters” attempting to kill people “in a confined and populated area.”

How are you going to change those numbers?

Granting arguendo that your numbers are correct, which I doubt, by allowing any law-abiding citizen who desires to do so to carry personal defensive weapons so that they will have the capacity to prevent or stop such events should they occur in their vicinity. You should note that all of the mass shootings (not "active shooters" which is a weasel phrase used to inflate the numbers and includes things like gang on gang shootings that take place in shopping malls or other venues) have so far taken place in locations where the carrying of firearms by non-police officers is prohibited either by law or by directive of the property owner.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33115246

[Tero]

At least the toddler and mom survived all mass shootings at the mall and the movies.