Does @NPR not read @NPR when it comes to gun violence?

NPR, 2013 (“Rate Of U.S. Gun Violence Has Fallen Since 1993, Study Says”):

“Firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011,” according to a report by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, “and nonfatal firearm crimes dropped from 1.5 million victimizations in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011.

There were seven gun homicides per 100,000 people in 1993, the Pew Research Center study says, which dropped to 3.6 gun deaths in 2010. The study relied in part on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NPR, 2015 (“What Is The Psychic Toll Of Gun Violence?”):

While 30,000 people a year in the U.S. die from gun violence, [Georgetown University psychiatry professor Liza] Gold noted, two-thirds of those commit suicide. Of the remaining 10,000, a full 90 percent lose their lives in acts of violence from someone known to them.

Assuming that that second number NPR quotes is accurate: the ‘psychic toll of gun violence’ apparently is worst among people who can’t understand why gun homicide rates keep going down, ‘despite’ the fact that the Left can’t get gun control laws passed. This is not a new problem for the gun control crowd: they’ve been waiting to see gun violence rates rise ever since the ‘assault weapons’ ban expired. Waiting and waiting and waiting.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: This was all via a NY Daily News article that noted that gun sales go up every time some politician starts talking about banning guns – excuse me: ‘sensible gun control laws.’  You will no doubt be shocked to hear that the NY Daily News forgot to mention that spikes in gun sales do not correspond to spikes in gun violence. Then again, if that sort of thing happened you’d be able to read the headline from orbit.

4 thoughts on “Does @NPR not read @NPR when it comes to gun violence?”

  1. Typical lefty goalpost-moving .. remember when “torture” meant guys with car batteries and jumper cables or garden shears or .. the Chicago classic .. kissing the curb?
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    Now, it means whatever the left needs it to mean ..
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    Mew

  2. some Evil Right-Wing Hacker changed the numbers no doubt. Part of the plot to keep Hillary! from assuming the throne, assuming she can find it without Huma holding her hand.

  3. I honestly don’t know how you keep it up, Moe. This is the same tired bs tactic they’ve been recycling for….ever, I guess.At some point debunking the same ol’ $#!* yet again is just too tiresome, for me. I tend to think that the people who re going to get it have got it by now, and everyone else is a hopeless case –but I’m really cynical, these days! 😀
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    That said, I’m glad there are people like you who can keep pointing out the hypocrisy and double standards. (If it weren’t for double standards, would the left have any at all?)

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