The chart that proves the gun banners are wrong

Freddy’s Note:
I saw this chart on the all over the internet today and I just had to re-blog it.  This chart put together with data from the Center for Disease Control is the best thing I have every seen in arguing against the gun banners and more gun laws and also against climate change.

What you’ll see is that America has been whipping infectious diseases for over a century, thanks to better sterilization, sanitation, and vaccination techniques, and now, Americans are living nearly twice as long. Currently, the average age is around 79 years old, and back in 1900, it was about 47 years old. Some “crisis” we have on our hands.
But it’s what you don’t see on this chart that is really the story. Natural disaster and extreme weather-related deaths don’t even make the chart.

In light of the federal government’s drive to enforce stricter environmental regulations for the reason of combatting man-made “climate change,” it should be said that 98% fewer people are dying from extreme weather events or natural disasters than in the 1920s. Extreme weather events currently comprise about 0.07% of all fatalities globally.

We’re also being told about the danger posed by law-abiding citizens possessing firearms. But where is that threat on this chart? Let me help you: It’s not there. Deaths from firearms totalled 31,672 in 2010 (just to keep the comparisons apples to apples). In that year, around 19,392 of those deaths were from firearms-related suicides (half of all suicides).
What about accidents? Around 570 of those were from firearms of a total of 126,100 accidents. Firearms murders, mostly by handgun, came to about 8,775 counts (of 12,996 total murders) in 2010, according to FBI statistics.

Where does this put these in the big picture? Deaths from heart disease in 2010 were 595,444 total, while deaths from cancer were 573,855. One factor for such high rates to keep in mind is that Americans are dying from causes that strike those who live longer than human beings ever did.

Since we live in a nation where many don’t get enough exercise and many eat a lot of fatty foods, a lot of people are dying from not moving around enough and/or eating too much food. Want to talk about “first world problems.”

There’s been hysteria about guns, natural disasters, non-organic foods, vaccinations, SARS (oh wait, that was a few years ago), pig flu (off again, shoot), killer bees, hysteria about hysteria – it has been getting really ugly out there.

We would never accuse bureaucrats or the media of drumming up public paranoia just for more taxpayer bucks or to boost political authority. Let’s just say their “awareness raising” lacks context.

Pinocchio Bloomberg and Pinocchio Watts lie again and get caught by CNN

Freddy’s Note:
It is a good thing that “Michael “Adolph” Bloomberg and his Minister of Propaganda, Shannon “Eva Braun” Watts are the most incompetent liars on the planet.  Every time Bloomberg’s groups make some sort of large anti-gun statement, they are later proven to have lied and made stuff up.  For Example: this week they said there has been 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook. After originally believing these stats from the Bloomberg elves, CNN looked at the data had to issue a correction. Because in real life there have been only 14, not 74 school shootings in this time period.  Are we the pro-gun movement beating Furor Bloomberg and his propaganda machine, or are we just watching Bloomberg beat himself over and over again. Either way, we are winning. Bloomberg’s goal is to ban all the guns except for the ones that his security teams have.  Not only is he a liar, but he is a hypocrite as well.

CNN issues of Retraction
CNN has drastically revised a claim it made, which was based on a graphical map from a pro-gun control group, which purportedly showed that 74 school shootings have occurred in the U.S. since the Sandy Hook massacre in Dec. 2012.

The news outlet circulated the graphical map, which came from the group Everytown for Gun Safety, after a shooting that occurred Tuesday at a high school in Oregon which left two dead, including the 15 year-old gunman.

Everytown for Gun Safety, which is backed by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, headlined their graphic “School Shootings in America Since Sandy Hook,” suggesting that the shootings it listed had a link of some kind to Sandy Hook — in which Adam Lanza killed 26 people at an elementary school.

CNN and various other media outlets used the graphic in news segments.

“So on Wednesday, CNN took a closer look at the list, delving into the circumstances of each incident Everytown included,” reads CNN’s report.

It acknowledged that many of the shootings listed by Everytown did not fit the profile of a Sandy Hook-type shooting, in which the attacks are seemingly random.

Instead, CNN said, “some of the other incidents on Everytown’s list included personal arguments, accidents and alleged gang activities and drug deals

 

MDA and MAIG Lie About Gun Deaths in Schools to FurtherTheir Gun Banning Agenda

You are more likely to die because of the bike part then the gun part

Freddy’s Note:
In the pro-gun or anti-gun debate, there is no bigger group of liars then the Mike Bloomberg sponsored Mayors Against Guns or the Mothers Demand Action groups.  Their paid spokesperson, Shannon Watts is a professional liar. They twist every store about guns to further their goal of banning all guns. Lately they have been yelling to everyone that will listen that Kids are Dying in Schools, Bla Bla,Bla. Total lies and garbage. This new study refutes their liars and says Kids are much more likely to die in a bicycle accident then by a gun.

MDA and MAIG are Liars
Responding to a recent report that Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (MDA) and Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) conducted about the dangers of guns in public schools, Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox said the annual risk of gun-related death in school is “well below one in two million,” and “many times more youngsters are killed annually in bicycle accidents.”

Because of this, Fox said he “trusts [MDA and MAIG] would support a national helmet law as quickly as a gun restriction.”

According to USA Today, the report by MDA and MAIG claims “44 shootings” took place in schools since the heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary in December 2012. Rather than argue with that figure, Fox shows that it is “lower than two decades ago when gang violence was especially problematic at school settings.”

In other words, there is a downward trend.

And because of this trend, Fox warned that coating schools with cameras and metal detectors and practicing lockdown drills “not only fail to prevent some teenager or adult determined to wreak havoc on innocent children and their dedicated teachers, but they send the wrong and excessively scary message concerning the risk.”

Fox has been studying “mass shootings” since the 1980s. Following Sandy Hook, he said, “There is no pattern, there is no increase.” He said such attacks seem prevalent because of the amount of media attention given them.