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Title: Obama Used This Falsified FBI Data to Push For More Gun Control
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URL Source: http://teapartyupdate.com/obama-use ... -the-fbi-admits-it-wasnt-true/
Published: Jul 7, 2015
Author: staff
Post Date: 2015-07-07 17:15:07 by BTP Holdings
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Obama Used This Falsified FBI Data to Push For More Gun Control One of Obama’s biggest fantasies is to decimate the second amendment. If he can make it so law abiding citizens are defenseless then he’s done his job. This is why he’s been advocating relentlessly for “common sense” gun control and why he’s initiated several new executive measures to restrict the ability of gun owners to legally own their weapons. He’s even gone so far as to use fabricated FBI data to make sure his anti-gun agenda is accepted with warm applause. Just before the elections he was citing a FBI study which indicated mass shootings were up overall. What better way to get people to hate guns, tell them the nation’s getting shot up lie a highway road sign? Turns out it none of it was true and the whole thing was a pile of lies. But late last week, J. Pete Blair and M. Hunter Martaindale, two academics at Texas State University who co-authored the FBI report, acknowledged that “our data is imperfect.” They said that the news media “got it wrong” last year when they “mistakenly reported mass shootings were on the rise.” Mind you, the authors did not issue this mea culpa in the major news outlets that supposedly misreported the original findings. Instead, the authors published it in ACJS Today, an academic journal published by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. “Because official data did not contain the information we needed, we had to develop our own,” wrote Messrs. Blair and Martaindale. “This required choices between various options with various strengths and weaknesses.” You don’t say. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center—who has studied FBI crime data for three decades—told me in an interview that the FBI report is better understood as a political document than as a work of serious social science. For example, the authors chose the year 2000 as their starting point “even though anyone who has studied these trends knows that 2000 and 2001 were unusually quiet and had few mass shootings.” Data going back to the mid-1970s is readily available but was ignored. How come? Over the past 40 years, there has been no statistically significant increase in mass shootings in the U.S. Another problem with the study: The data used seemed selectively chosen to achieve certain results. The researchers somehow “missed 20 mass-shooting cases,” Mr. Lott said. “There’s one case where nine people were murdered. You just don’t miss that.” Also, the omissions helped create an “upward trend, because they were primarily missed at the beginning of the period.” This, he said, “is disturbing.” This is seriously messed up. The President and his cronies are using falsified data to take away our precious rights. Obamacare was passed under similar pretenses, so was his executive amnesty, in truth, nearly everything the President has authorized has been tainted with falsifications. And to think most of the country actually liked him enough to elect him twice. Poster Comment: Obummer wants the U.N. to control our guns. Is there any reason to think anything different?
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
How well do you think that will work? The U.N. does not even rise to the level of a 'paper-tiger'. Nobody wearing that blue global patch is willing to die to enforce any laws in the continental United States. Obummer wants the U.N. to control our guns.
-Alex Kurtagic
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