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The day after Morgan, as leaners say, owned it seems that a local TV reporter came up with some real numbers about what Morgan had to talk about in that interview. I remember Morgan repeatedly asking how many people were killed in the UK with guns and finally saying it was 35. That little local guy found a different number, not much different, but enough to make Morgan a liar. The number he found was 59.
Here is a chance to hear that local reporter who I don't think ever made it to any kind of MSM site.
56 in 2006-2007
53 in 2007-2008
39 in 2008-2009
39 in 2009-2010
58 in 2010-2011
39 in 2011/2012
Piers' 35 could be to-date numbers for 2012-2013
In any event it doesn't negate his point.
56 in 2006-2007
53 in 2007-2008
39 in 2008-2009
39 in 2009-2010
58 in 2010-2011
39 in 2011/2012
Piers' 35 could be to-date numbers for 2012-2013
In any event it doesn't negate his point.
It appears to me that Morgan is using whatever numbers appear good to him. The other TV anchor was trying to use yearly and I believe he was talking about 2011, the year Morgan was talking about.
It also appears to me that if he was using present dates it must be sometime in 2012 - sometime in 2013. We all know that he was using figures that would make his case appear better than they probably really are.
56 in 2006-2007
53 in 2007-2008
39 in 2008-2009
39 in 2009-2010
58 in 2010-2011
39 in 2011/2012
Piers' 35 could be to-date numbers for 2012-2013
In any event it doesn't negate his point.
He didn't have a point to begin with. Morgan wants us to believe that the difference is the result of different gun control laws of Britain vs. the US. Mexico has stringent gun control, not much different from Britain, and yet has a slightly higher rate of death by gunshot than even the US.
If we passed Brit/Mex style gun control tomorrow, a year from now would our numbers look more like Britain's or more like Mexico's? Morgan's sales pitch is obviously that it would be the former, but I don't see where he offers an argument as to why. In typical con-artist fashion he set up the outline and relies on the sucker's brain to fill in the blanks and draw the (incorrect)) conclusion. My money would be on the latter result, not the former.
I read the UK's violent crime rate is twice the rate of the U.S. Haven't looked into it much though because it doesn't matter much. I suspect the drug war is a huge contributor to our gun violence.
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