{"id":34910,"date":"2013-04-03T10:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34910"},"modified":"2013-04-03T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:37:27","slug":"rolling-out-the-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34910","title":{"rendered":"Rolling out the BS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lance Cooley sends us a link from Fox News<\/a> that disputes the figures that the president is using to push his universal background check agenda. Apparently the president said something to give the impression that 40% of guns are sold with no background checks;<\/p>\n

The oft-cited figure, it turns out, was pulled from a 1997 study done by the National Institute of Justice. In the study, researchers estimated about 40 percent of all firearm sales took place through people other than licensed gun dealers. The conclusion was based on data from a 1994 survey of 2,568 households. Of those, only 251 people answered the question about where they got their guns.<\/p>\n

PolitiFact tracked down the co-author of the study, Duke University professor Philip Cook, and asked him if he thought the 40 percent estimate is accurate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe answer is I have no idea,\u201d Cook reportedly told PolitiFact. \u201cThis survey was done almost 20 years ago.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even the Washington Post<\/a>, through editorial tears, squeezed out three Pinocchios for the lie.<\/p>\n

Two months ago, we were willing to cut the White House some slack, given the paucity of recent data. But the president\u2019s failure to acknowledge the significant questions about these old data, or his slippery phrasing, leaves us little choice but to downgrade this claim to Three Pinocchios. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, anyone would know it was a lie, since only 25% of weapons sold at gun shows are done without background checks. I’ve gone through background checks for every single weapon that I own. I guess next time I shoot with Old Trooper and his Hillbilly Hunt Club in Minnesota, they’ll make me go through background checks again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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