The Left Has Issues Telling The Truth About Guns

First of course we have journalists like NPR claiming a bullet from an AR15 will blow your head clear off (newsflash - it won't), and do you feel lucky punk? 

Who can forget our current President claiming a 9mm bullet will blow a lung clear out of your body (newsflash - it really, really won't)?

And of course, our current President repeatedly keeps falsely claiming that at the time the Second Amendment was passed ordinary people couldn't buy cannons.   In point of fact, they certainly could and did, and they could even put them on ships and sail the seas with them to boot.

So Being Liberal had to come up with and post a meme that's false on many levels.  The Left really has trouble making memes.

Notice how they falsely and misleadingly conflate selling a taco with buying a rifle to try and sell their propaganda that more regulation and laws on selling firearms must be passed, even as they have no idea or don't care what the current ones even are right now.

In fact for a merchant to sell an AR15 they need to have all sorts of County/City permits. But they also need a Federal Firearms License, perform background checks on every buyer, keep records of all their sales including the identity of every buyer and every firearm sold - al of things Taco sellers do not have to do.

It would be more honest if they compared buyers to buyers, but they won't do that, and after I pointed out the false equivalency, another fellow posted this up to kindly fix it for them:

It's at least more accurate but as such it sure doesn't work out in the Left's favor anymore and in fact makes the opposite point, as the truth concerning firearms and firearms law in this country often does.

How To Mislead With Statistics - New England Journal Of Medicine And Firearms Edition

You've probably seen the headlines today, echoed and repeated throughout the media along the lines of of:

Firearms surpass motor vehicles as leading cause of death among kids, UM researchers say

Of course, it depends on who you classify as "kids".  In order to get away with this misleading statement designed to cause panic and a demand for someone to do something, you have to play with the numbers a bit.  

The analysis, based on Centers for Disease Control mortality data from 2020 and published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that firearm-related deaths among children and adolescents age 1 to 19 increased 29% from 2019 to 2020.

Yep, they're doing the 18-year-olds and 19-year-olds are children when it comes to death by firearm.

Interestingly enough, that age range is how the CDC classifies children - but only for firearms death. For example for drowning deaths the age range for "children" per the CDC is from zero to 17. It doesn't include 18 or 19 because for drowning, that's an adult.

This is most likely due to most firearm deaths and especially murders being in the 18-19 year old prime criminal cohort, so the numbers can make it appear that children are being murdered.

The study linked to fails to breakdown deaths by age range, so we can't see what the death rate is if we exclude the 18 and 19 year old adults from the mix. But interestingly enough does look deaths of the 0-19 age range by race and the result is completely unsurprising.  It shows the vast majority are male Blacks a -- trend that has remained the same in 2019 and 2020 and with more than double the mortality of anyone else, and while hard to be sure, practically equal to or more than all other races put together. 

Black male mortality by firearms also shows the largest increase in 2020 which matches the current crime wave in Democrat-run cities after the BLM movement and soft-on-crime prosecutors have had their way.

Using 18 and 19 year old death stats to pump up "child deaths" is both painfully dishonest and manipulative, especially as gun deaths seem to be the only death that gets this extra boost to pump up the "kid death" numbers.  Of course the study calls for more funding - for more biased BS studies designed for advocacy rather than information.

How about NEJM and CDC re-run the study without the 18 and 19 year olds polluting thew statistics and then let us know what the numbers are, ok?