Global gun control report relied on deceptive statistics

BITFO!!!!

David Codrea, Gun Rights Examiner
October 10, 2011

“In an attempt to frighten the world’s States into signing onto an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a report entitled The Global Burden of Armed Violence (or GBAV*) was published in 2008,” researchers Paul Gallant, Alan Chwick and Joanne D. Eisen write in “740,000 New Lies,” an published in the November issue of The Dillon Blue Press:

The anti-gun media latched onto the figure the GBAV authors conjured up—740,000 global deaths per year from “armed violence”—and ran with it.

The report was intended to exaggerate the deaths associated with weapons, and create public hysteria. The scam was easy to see—if only one would actually read the report.

That’s hardly surprising for those who follow the standard practice among gungrabbers to rely on lies, damn lies and statistics in order to bamboozle the ignorant into accepting their own disarmament. Recall the “90%” lie exploited to blame U.S. gun laws for Mexican cartel violence—a figure some evidently thought needed artificial boosting by way of “Project Gunwalker.” And it’s hardly surprising that an elite press that is overwhelmingly hostile to the right to keep and bear arms would welcome such deception, and repeat it wholesale without critical analysis.

The lies in the GBAV crumble under the probing touch of Gallant, Chwick and Eisen, and we learn:

200,000 fake numbers were added into the total of 740,000 violent deaths—27 percent!—and uncritically accepted as gospel by the media and anti-gun groups.

And:

The GBAV authors barely mentioned the significant number of violent deaths perpetrated by government against civilians. For example, in Kenya, it has been reported that up to 90 percent of homicides are committed by Kenyan police.

That’s a taste of what you’ll find in this authoritative deconstruction of how figures lie and liars figure, another in a series of devastating critiques these researchers are producing.

Isn’t it interesting that citizen disarmament advocates consistently resort to lying to you in order to persuade you that governments alone must be entrusted with a monopoly of violence? How can they possibly have your welfare as a free and sovereign individual in mind?

Click here to read “740,000 New Lies.”