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To President Biden, public health researchers, and the media, violent crime is all about guns. But a new survey finds that people are badly misinformed about how much violent crime involves guns. The average likely American voter is way off, thinking that over 46% of violent crimes involve guns. In fact, the true figure is less than 8%.
Not surprisingly, those who believe that most violent crime involves guns are more likely to view gun control as the solution.
Biden has given four major speeches on violent crime (here, here, here, and here). Each one of them was focused on enforcement of gun control laws. In the four speeches, he mentioned “gun” or “firearm” 179 times. The term “weapon,” sometimes in connection with “assault weapon,” was used another 31 times.
Violent crime is going to cover a whole bunch of stuff including basic assaults.
Homicide is the main concern and both sides of the gun debate are trying their hardest to spin and twist numbers.
I don't feel that adding suicides is fair to the discussion but trying to recast the issue as "violent crime" isn't fair either.
Then you have the people defining "children" as 19 and under in order to get all those 17-19 year old gang member deaths by gun counted alongside things like Sandy Hook which is completely apples and oranges.
I do agree with the thread topic though that there is an effort to intentionally mislead people and frankly most of the anti-gun types are absolutely ignorant on the topic and have no appreciation for how people live in rougher or more rural areas, hunting culture, living 30 minutes from police response etc.
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