On February 10, 2019, in the Springfield Republican Newspaper, Springfield, Massachusetts, in an article entitled "'Red Flag' Laws Grow in Popularity," the author, Ryan Foley of Assocated Press, wrote a dishonest and fraudulent article to support his ideological position on gun control.
He started off with the misrepresentation of arguing nearly 40,000 people are killed each years with guns. That statisical datum included both homicides and suicides.
Suspicious of his data, I researched it through the FBI report on the subject with the latest data compiled in 2017. 11.004 people were killed by guns in homicides and 22,939 killed by guns in an act of suicides, according to the FBI.
That adds up to a total of 33,942, no where near the "nearly 40,000" reported by Ryan Foley. Apparently, he was attempting to "round it off to the nearest large number." But that would be only 34,000. That act of "rounding it off" was intellectually dishonest on his part.
More importantly, we cannot properly represent suicides by guns as "gun volence." To do so is also intellectual dishonesty. It is actually outright fraud to include suicides with homicides in his argument to support gun control, all of which violates constitutional law and ultimately doesn't resolve the problem. Because his solution doesn't address the cause of crime or the reason people who commit suicide.
Nor is there such a thing as "gun volence."
I noticed, over the years, Associated Press and many other news outlets consistently misrepresent this controversy. Nor is it unusual for them to publish articles by journalist and columnists citing statistics on gun control from anti-gun organizations in order to support their position on gun control. That is a little psychotic!
There is also a strong pattern, as in the case of the irresponsible jounalist, Ryan Foley, of the wrong people writing on the subject of gun control when not competent to discuss the subject. Ryan Foley is clearly incompetent as well as unethical and irresponsible.
I have never seen an article on this subject written by genuine experts in firearms, constitutional law or the science of small arms ballistics. It is always by someone with seriously strong opinions without any supporting education and experience on the subject. Then most of this "information" comes from the grapevine circuits and the Mainstream News Media. It is never from legitimate scientific literature or scientific authority.
In addition, every "solution" they support and advocate violates constitutional law and, in the long run, it has been demonstrated, doesn't really work in the first place (although they always rationalize to the contrary). It usually has no effect toward the reduction of crime (but they ignore it anyway and argue for more gun control).
Ryan Foley, Assocate Press Reviews
On February 10, 2019, in the Springfield Republican Newspaper, Springfield, Massachusetts, in an article entitled "'Red Flag' Laws Grow in Popularity," the author, Ryan Foley of Assocated Press, wrote a dishonest and fraudulent article to support his ideological position on gun control.
He started off with the misrepresentation of arguing nearly 40,000 people are killed each years with guns. That statisical datum included both homicides and suicides.
Suspicious of his data, I researched it through the FBI report on the subject with the latest data compiled in 2017. 11.004 people were killed by guns in homicides and 22,939 killed by guns in an act of suicides, according to the FBI.
That adds up to a total of 33,942, no where near the "nearly 40,000" reported by Ryan Foley. Apparently, he was attempting to "round it off to the nearest large number." But that would be only 34,000. That act of "rounding it off" was intellectually dishonest on his part.
More importantly, we cannot properly represent suicides by guns as "gun volence." To do so is also intellectual dishonesty. It is actually outright fraud to include suicides with homicides in his argument to support gun control, all of which violates constitutional law and ultimately doesn't resolve the problem. Because his solution doesn't address the cause of crime or the reason people who commit suicide.
Nor is there such a thing as "gun volence."
I noticed, over the years, Associated Press and many other news outlets consistently misrepresent this controversy. Nor is it unusual for them to publish articles by journalist and columnists citing statistics on gun control from anti-gun organizations in order to support their position on gun control. That is a little psychotic!
There is also a strong pattern, as in the case of the irresponsible jounalist, Ryan Foley, of the wrong people writing on the subject of gun control when not competent to discuss the subject. Ryan Foley is clearly incompetent as well as unethical and irresponsible.
I have never seen an article on this subject written by genuine experts in firearms, constitutional law or the science of small arms ballistics. It is always by someone with seriously strong opinions without any supporting education and experience on the subject. Then most of this "information" comes from the grapevine circuits and the Mainstream News Media. It is never from legitimate scientific literature or scientific authority.
In addition, every "solution" they support and advocate violates constitutional law and, in the long run, it has been demonstrated, doesn't really work in the first place (although they always rationalize to the contrary). It usually has no effect toward the reduction of crime (but they ignore it anyway and argue for more gun control).