2aguy
Diamond Member
- Jul 19, 2014
- 111,953
- 52,214
- 2,290
Cooke is great......you should read his work. Here he explains the truth about guns that gun control extremists either don't know, or lie about.....
He also talks about the Gun Violence Archive, a resource the anti-gun extremists use to lie to the American people....
How Media Misinformation About Mass Murderers is Harming Us
Having failed for decades to induce the voting public to back its draconian and unconstitutional agenda, the American gun-control movement has hit upon a pernicious alternative to persuasion and political argument: Fear.
To accomplish their goals of more gun bans and restrictions, gun-control groups are now focused on trying to convince Americans of things that are simply not true. Many in the mainstream media are helping them do this by printing their disinformation with few questions asked.
Thus, it has to come pass that many voters believe the number of crimes committed with firearms has risen over the last 30 years; they believe this even though, in fact, the number has fallen dramatically. This overall decline has occurred as the number of guns in private hands has more than doubled, as the number of concealed carriers has risen to around 20 million and as the laws governing the sale, ownership and use of firearms have been loosened almost everywhere.
Thus, many voters falsely believe that Americaās schools were more dangerous in 2019 than they were in 1999, even though the opposite is the case.
Plus, many voters now think mass shootingsāwhich, although devastating, remain mercifully rareāare happening every single day in the United States.
This lattermost lieāthat mass shootings are ubiquitous rather than unusualāhas gained particular currency since the launch, in 2013, of a shameless propaganda outlet named the āGun Violence Archiveā (GVA). The purpose of this so-called archive is to massively overstate the number of mass shootings and to launder that overstatement through media outlets that favor more gun-control laws.
Unfortunately, the GVA has been somewhat successful in its aimāthat success has had disastrous consequences not only for the publicās conception of reality but also for public policy. On the basis of the GVAās preposterous numbers, the press has been busy convincing children and parents that Americaās public schools resemble the O.K. Corral; the mainstream media pushes this narrative even though, in fact, the U.S. is more peaceful than it has been in living memory.
To understand the extraordinary scale of the GVAās dishonesty, consider that, for the year 2015, it counted 335 mass shootings. The FBI, in contrast, counted six that year. The open-source index kept by the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine counted just seven (and they counted the San Bernardino terrorist attack). As Mark Follman noted in The New York Times in 2015, the number of mass shootings since 1982 was then 73āwhich means that, by his count, there had been five times fewer incidents over the preceding 33 years than the GVA was claiming had occurred in a single year. In the U.S., a person is about as likely to die in a mass shooting as to be struck by lightning, but one would not know this from listening to the press.
He also talks about the Gun Violence Archive, a resource the anti-gun extremists use to lie to the American people....
How Media Misinformation About Mass Murderers is Harming Us
Having failed for decades to induce the voting public to back its draconian and unconstitutional agenda, the American gun-control movement has hit upon a pernicious alternative to persuasion and political argument: Fear.
To accomplish their goals of more gun bans and restrictions, gun-control groups are now focused on trying to convince Americans of things that are simply not true. Many in the mainstream media are helping them do this by printing their disinformation with few questions asked.
Thus, it has to come pass that many voters believe the number of crimes committed with firearms has risen over the last 30 years; they believe this even though, in fact, the number has fallen dramatically. This overall decline has occurred as the number of guns in private hands has more than doubled, as the number of concealed carriers has risen to around 20 million and as the laws governing the sale, ownership and use of firearms have been loosened almost everywhere.
Thus, many voters falsely believe that Americaās schools were more dangerous in 2019 than they were in 1999, even though the opposite is the case.
Plus, many voters now think mass shootingsāwhich, although devastating, remain mercifully rareāare happening every single day in the United States.
This lattermost lieāthat mass shootings are ubiquitous rather than unusualāhas gained particular currency since the launch, in 2013, of a shameless propaganda outlet named the āGun Violence Archiveā (GVA). The purpose of this so-called archive is to massively overstate the number of mass shootings and to launder that overstatement through media outlets that favor more gun-control laws.
Unfortunately, the GVA has been somewhat successful in its aimāthat success has had disastrous consequences not only for the publicās conception of reality but also for public policy. On the basis of the GVAās preposterous numbers, the press has been busy convincing children and parents that Americaās public schools resemble the O.K. Corral; the mainstream media pushes this narrative even though, in fact, the U.S. is more peaceful than it has been in living memory.
To understand the extraordinary scale of the GVAās dishonesty, consider that, for the year 2015, it counted 335 mass shootings. The FBI, in contrast, counted six that year. The open-source index kept by the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine counted just seven (and they counted the San Bernardino terrorist attack). As Mark Follman noted in The New York Times in 2015, the number of mass shootings since 1982 was then 73āwhich means that, by his count, there had been five times fewer incidents over the preceding 33 years than the GVA was claiming had occurred in a single year. In the U.S., a person is about as likely to die in a mass shooting as to be struck by lightning, but one would not know this from listening to the press.
