{"id":64770,"date":"2016-03-11T08:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64770"},"modified":"2016-03-11T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T13:50:23","slug":"the-lancet-applies-lies-to-gun-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64770","title":{"rendered":"The Lancet applies lies to gun discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lancet is probably most famous for their “study” which arrived at the conclusion that more than 77,000 US troops had died<\/a> in the war against terror. That same “study” accused the Bush Administration of depositing more than 8200 tons of nuclear waste on the Iraqi landscape as depleted uranium-tipped tank rounds. Their little study was easily disproved. <\/p>\n

Now, they’re at work on publishing a study on gun control. According to AFP<\/a>, they claim that increased laws for background checks will reduce gun violence in the country from 10.35 to 4.46 out of 100,000 Americans. Conducting background checks on ammunition purchases would further reduce the incidence of gun violence to 1.99 per 100,000.<\/p>\n

To arrive at those figures, Lancet claims that 40% of gun sales are private. They don’t bother to mention where they get they number, though. The 40% is an old statistic that dates back more than 20 years to the pre-Brady Bill days. More recent FBI statistics place private sales of firearms at less than 10%. Interviews with criminals already incarcerated for gun crimes put the number of private-sales guns used in crimes at less than 1%, including gun show-purchased firearms.<\/p>\n

They also claim that background checks for people buying ammunition would reduce gun crime. I guess that means that folks who reload their own ammunition would have to comply with some new accounting process devised by the government. But then that would only apply to legitimate gun owners – I haven’t sen too many criminals who reload their own bullets.<\/p>\n

They also claim that “gun identification” measures that would leave a distinctive marking on a shell casing tracing it back to a particular weapon would also reduce gun-related crimes. You know, as if criminals would worry about that with their unregistered, illegally obtained gun.<\/p>\n

“Federal implementation of all three laws could reduce national overall gun deaths to 0.16 per 100,000,” said a press statement by The Lancet — a drop of over 90 percent cut.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Lancet speciously figures that criminals would automatically begin to comply with laws on Day One of the implementation. That those guys selling guns from the trunks of their car and in dark alleys would check the criminal background of their customers. That all of the guns currently in use would disappear and everyone would purchase the new guns that distinctively mark shell casings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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