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Fux News Has A Sad: Media Not Covering Right Wing PEW Research On Homicides. (Original Post) Grassy Knoll May 2013 OP
Ah, that's the network Newest Reality May 2013 #1
Best Description....EVVAHHHH !!!! Grassy Knoll May 2013 #3
Best one sentence analysis ever... zeemike May 2013 #4
well this is worthy of my...... madrchsod May 2013 #5
A good SNL sketch of this segment would have a gunman bust into the studio. Spitfire of ATJ May 2013 #2
Thought this was The Onion for a minute Politicalboi May 2013 #6
Judy Miller? Canuckistanian May 2013 #7
Ms. Miller Half-Century Man May 2013 #10
But mass shootings are way up and the US still dwarfs other developed nations in gun deaths. ErikJ May 2013 #8
+1 Jamaal510 May 2013 #14
Our very own billh58 May 2013 #9
there are alot of reasons its down.. iamthebandfanman May 2013 #12
Yet more billh58 May 2013 #15
hmmm? iamthebandfanman May 2013 #16
Looks to me, declines under Clinton and Obama, slight rise under Shrub Thor_MN May 2013 #11
Pew isn't right wing Gormy Cuss May 2013 #13
Give props to Obama.... BaronChocula May 2013 #17

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Ah, that's the network
Sat May 11, 2013, 10:41 PM
May 2013

of pseudo-news for mooncalves, overflowing with truculent popinjays and unctuously Pharisaical ninnyhammers, huh?

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
6. Thought this was The Onion for a minute
Sat May 11, 2013, 11:41 PM
May 2013

Then they go into Global Warming not real nonsense. Gee, but the number of abortions cause these assholes to create stupid laws to shut clinic down. This is the same thing kind of, only we care about the living person, not the cells.

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
10. Ms. Miller
Sun May 12, 2013, 02:54 AM
May 2013

Oh Ms. Miller you're a bad little monkey. Considering your penchant for accuracy. Does everyone you say "good morning" to peak out the window or check their watch?

billh58

(6,635 posts)
9. Our very own
Sun May 12, 2013, 01:26 AM
May 2013

NRA apologists are pasting this story all over DU as "proof" that there is absolutely no need for gun control. We MAY need to regulate swimming pools, shovels, automobiles, and knives, but gun violence is almost nil. Who knew...?

iamthebandfanman

(8,127 posts)
12. there are alot of reasons its down..
Sun May 12, 2013, 04:24 AM
May 2013

one of them being that thankfully our 'street' gangs here in the united states dont kill each other as much they used to .
in los angeles , for example, gang gun homicides are down from 430 in 1992 to 157 in 2009. the police there credit the decline to a 'fragile peace' among most rival gangs and the fact that most of the violent folks (a lot of whom were gang leaders) they arrested in the 90s are still in prison.
heck, gang murders in the entire united states are down 9.3% in just the last 3 years.. and that's with 1,800 murders related to gangs in 2011 (down from over 2,000 in 2009).

billh58

(6,635 posts)
15. Yet more
Sun May 12, 2013, 03:25 PM
May 2013

NRA/Gungeon "statistics." Thanks so much for contributing. FWIW, 100% of people who are killed or injured by guns in the USA are shot by someone with a gun, including suicide and accidents.

This is where you come back with swimming pool, poison, automobile, and snake bite death rates.

iamthebandfanman

(8,127 posts)
16. hmmm?
Sun May 12, 2013, 04:22 PM
May 2013

..
I was just pointing out there are a lot of reasons that numbers are down for over all gun violence..
that the reasoning of 'its because more people have guns!' has little to do with it
there are many many factors that's play into the over all decline in numbers the 'nra/gungeon' folks are attempting to parade around

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
11. Looks to me, declines under Clinton and Obama, slight rise under Shrub
Sun May 12, 2013, 03:02 AM
May 2013

The non-existent "Liberal Media" can't report on it, because, well, it doesn't exist. The corporate media exist to sell news, and only extreme drama sells news. The conservative media exists to sell outrage to distract from what the GOP is doing to America.

BaronChocula

(1,521 posts)
17. Give props to Obama....
Sun May 12, 2013, 04:32 PM
May 2013

and Obamacare, FOX. You just cited an improvement in the quality of life during his term.

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