The Sunday, September 22, 2019 New York Times had a center page above the fold promotion of an article “Inside A Deadly American Summer,” that began with a false premise and ended with an outright lie.
The false premise was that this past summer was somehow more deadly and recorded more fatalities due to “mass shootings.”
As Brad Palumbo documented in a September 3 article for the Washington Examiner, such a claim is completely unfounded. Despite the liberal media’s profit-motivated mass coverage of these tragic events, and despite frequent exploitation by gun-control activists, actual mass shootings remain a statistical rarity and a much-exaggerated threat.
By nearly a factor of four, wrote Palumbo, more people in America die from the flu and pneumonia than by homicide (all homicides, including non-gun homicides).
Due to the fake news about “gun violence” promoted by Far-Left outlets such as The New York Times, much of the population has been scared into radically over-estimating the prevalence of mass shootings and gun violence in general.
Mr. Palumbo reported, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 4.5 people out of 100,000 die each year from various forms of firearm homicide. Mass shootings, in turn, account for less than 1% of homicides.
Another way of looking at it observed Palumbo is to consider rifle homicides specifically, because the topic always turns to "assault weapons." There are only 300 to 400 deaths in a given year from all rifles, including the ones someone might call "assault weapons."
You are 50% more likely to be killed by a blunt object.
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Which brings us to the outright lie that concludes “Inside A Deadly American Summer.”
“Then a man fleeing a traffic stop began shooting at random at motorists between Odessa and Midland using a military-style rifle. ABC News reported that he bought it through a private-sale loophole after failing a background check because of mental illness.”
Almost nothing in that paragraph, except that a mentally ill man “began shooting at random at motorists between Odessa and Midland” is true.
There is no “private-sale loophole.” It is illegal to sell a gun to a prohibited person, period. Moreover, the gun in question was not a “military-style” gun, but a modern semi-automatic sporting rifle, exactly like the millions of similar guns in private hands today. It was legally manufactured for personal use and was thus illegal to sell to a third party.
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